On the night of March 22, the territory of Ukraine was again attacked by Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report. According to preliminary data from the General Staff, a total of 21 drones were launched, 16 of which were shot down by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Kiev region, as a result of the attack, three people were killed, seven were injured, and a civilian object was also damaged, the Kiev Regional Military Administration (OVA) reports on Telegram. Information about the dead and wounded is being specified, units of the State Emergency Service (GSChS), the National Police and emergency services are working on the spot. The resulting fire was extinguished. Around Kyiv, eight drones were found and shot down.
The Ukrainian Air Force stated that the UAVs were launched from the Bryansk region. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine specified that the fourth and fifth floors of two dormitories and a three-story educational building of a professional lyceum were partially destroyed in the city of Rzhyshchiv. There was a fire.
An air raid alert was also announced at night in Chernihiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Rivne, Khmelnytsky, Dnepropetrovsk, Ternopil, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Kirovohrad regions.
According to the Zhytomyr OVA, three drones were shot down in the region, and an infrastructure facility was damaged .
During the war, Ukraine is regularly attacked by drones, most often by Shahed-136. In November 2022, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian admitted for the first time that the country supplied drones to Russia. He clarified that the deliveries were in small quantities and took place several months before the war in Ukraine. Initially, Russia disguised the Shahed-136 as its own drones with the domestic name Geran-2. At the same time, both Russia and Iran denied the supply of drones, but photos of the engines of UAVs shot down in Ukraine show that the insides of the drone are similar to Iranian ones.