Russia launches scores of drones on Ukraine, four people injured, Kyiv says

KYIV (Reuters) - Russia launched a barrage of drones successful an overnight onslaught connected Ukraine, injuring 4 radical and damaging residential and commercialized buildings successful Kyiv and different parts of the country, Ukrainian officials said connected Saturday.

Ukraine's aerial defences changeable down 56 of 88 Russian drones, its aerial unit said. It added that 24 drones were "lost" arsenic the subject utilized physics warfare to redirect them.

Kyiv politician Vitali Klitchko said that 3 radical were injured successful the superior arsenic a effect of the drone attacks.

Drone debris besides destroyed a backstage location and damaged respective commercialized buildings, causing ample fires successful antithetic parts of Kyiv, metropolis officials said.

One much idiosyncratic was wounded successful the metropolis of Kharkiv successful the northeast, Kharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said.

Regional officials besides said that residential and commercialized buildings were damaged successful the cardinal Dnipropetrovsk region, and the subject reported harm successful the Odesa portion successful the south.

(Reporting by Olena Harmash; Editing by Susan Fenton)