At least one dead and several injured after a Russian drone attack on a residential building in Kiev

At least one person was reportedly killed and five injured after a Russian drone struck a 25-storey residential building in Kiev on Friday evening.

Emergency workers were sent to the scene of the attack to fight the fire that broke out on the top floor of the building as a result of the strike.

The fire had been extinguished but a search and rescue operation continued, Kiev’s Major Vitali Klitschko said.

Klitschko said one of the five injured had been sent to hospital and a first aid tent had been set up at the scene.

Ukraine’s emergency services said the attack damaged several apartments in the building and around 100 people were evacuated after the drone struck.

“Apartments from the 17th to the 21st floor were damaged in the apartment building in the Solomyanskyi district,” Serhiy Popko, head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, wrote in Telegram. “Apartments were on fire on the 20th floor.”

Before the attack, local media reported that an air raid alert had been issued in Kiev and other Ukrainian regions due to a massive Russian drone attack – an almost daily occurrence in Ukraine for more than a month.

Air defense units were reportedly deployed during the hours-long air raid siren.