"All the glass started flying, the door was torn out": a Kyiv resident tells about the first minutes after the drone hit a house in Obolon

On the night of November 16, the wreckage of a downed kamikaze drone that Russia attacked Kyiv hit a multi-story building. Before the explosion, which damaged the common balcony and smashed doors and windows in the corridors, loud sounds of UAVs were heard.

This was reported by a local resident Raisa, according to Kyiv TV channel. Fortunately, no one was killed.

"I was saved by the pipe (of the garbage chute, which is located near the wall of the apartment – Ed.) The first sound was loud, and the second too. I was about to go into the hallway, but I didn't have time. All the glass started flying, the door was torn out," Raisa said.

According to her, in addition to the hole in the balcony partition, the blast wave also damaged the door leading to the elevator room.

"I ran out into the common corridor, but there was black smoke and I couldn't see anything. I returned home and called my neighbor. I said, "Liliia, we are on fire," the woman added.

As reported by OBOZ.UA, on the night of Saturday, November 16, Russians attacked Kyiv and the region with "Shaheds." Air defense forces were working on enemy targets, and several explosions were heard. In the Obolon district of the capital, the fall of downed UAVs damaged balconies and windows in a high-rise building.

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