Two foreign aid workers were killed in Ukraine on Sunday when Russian fire hit a van carrying Ukrainian NGO staff, as nearly three dozen drones were launched in Kyiv, littering several city districts with debris.
A van carrying four volunteers from the NGO Road to Relief, which helps evacuate wounded people from the front lines, overturned and burst into flames after being hit by bullets near the town of Chasiv Yar.
The organization’s director, Emma Igual, 31, died in the attack, Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told The Telegraph.
“A bullet fell on the vehicle the Spaniard was riding in,” Albares said.
“He was working there at an NGO that helps with the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and we have verbal confirmation of his death.”
Two foreign aid workers were killed on Sunday in Ukraine when their van was hit by gunfire. Reuters
Canadian Anthony Ihnat was also killed in the attack, the group said on Instagram.
German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured, according to Sunday’s broadcast.
“Early this morning around 10 am, four members of our Road to Relief team left from Slovyansk towards Bakhmut to assess the needs of civilians caught up in the fighting in the town of Ivanivske, Bakhmut Region, Donetsk Region,” it read.
“On the way in, past Chasiv Yar, their vehicle was attacked by the Russians. Continuing the collision, the vehicle overturned and caught fire.”
Also on Sunday, Ukraine’s air force said troops destroyed 26 of 33 drones launched by Russia that targeted Kyiv and surrounding regions.
Two other foreign aid workers were injured in the attack, their NGO said online. Reuters
Witnesses told Reuters they heard at least five explosions echo across Kyiv during the attack, with video showing the night sky lit up as the strike began.
“Drones are coming to the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said on Telegram.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said debris from the downed drone landed in five different districts, injuring one person.
Ukrainian officials said they shot down 26 of the 33 drones launched by Russia. Reuters
Kyiv army chief Serhii Popko said the Iranian-made Shahed drone did not pose a risk to people’s lives. At least one high-rise apartment was also damaged in the drone strike.
Kyiv regional governor Ruslan Kravchenko wrote on Facebook that unspecified infrastructure facilities and eight houses were damaged in the overnight attack.
One person was injured after the drone attack. Reuters
There was no immediate comment from Russia on the latest attack.
A Russian attack on Wednesday killed 17 people in the eastern town of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian officials said.
Russia has not commented on the latest string of attacks. Reuters
Russian air defense forces on Sunday claimed to have destroyed a Ukrainian-launched drone in the Bryansk region, in southwestern Russia. No damage or casualties were immediately reported.
With Postal wire.
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