Fire started in Kyiv due to falling wreckage of downed drone - Klitschko
Ukrinform
In Kyiv, the wreckage of a downed Russian drone set fire to a grass floor in the Desnianskyi district.
This was reported by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.
"According to the emergency services, this afternoon in the Desnianskyi district of the capital, in the Darnytsia forestry and parkland, the wreckage of a UAV was found falling. As a result, the grass flooring caught fire in a small area," Klitschko wrote.
He noted that the fire was extinguished by forestry workers. No one was injured.
As reported, an air alert was declared in Kyiv and a number of regions on 17 August.
In the Kyiv region, where the air alert was declared three times that night, the fall of the drone's wreckage caused a forest floor to catch fire. The fire was extinguished.
