Russian drone hits a Kyiv hospital, three patients injured – deaths in Odesa and Zaporizhzhia

A Russian drone struck a hospital building in Kyiv overnight into Friday, November 13, injuring three patients, while attacks that night and in the morning left people dead in Odesa and Zaporizhzhia. The Kyiv City Military Administration reported shortly before 03:30 that a medical building in the Shevchenkivskyi district caught fire after drone debris fell on it. In its morning update it said the fire partially destroyed the second floor. Staff evacuated 30 people, rescuers of the State Emergency Service rescued seven more, and the fire was put out.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Health clarified that a facility of the National Academy of Medical Sciences was hit. Three patients were injured and received help on the spot, and no medical staff were hurt. Patients in the damaged wards were moved to other departments of the hospital. After a video conference on the situation in the regions, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had discussed with the government the restoration of the buildings of the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics in Kyiv, damaged by a Russian Shahed. In the same post he returned to the 161 km/h limit on Starshield, which he says makes it impossible to use interceptor drones against jet-powered Shaheds. See our report: Zelensky: the 161 km/h limit is back on Starshield.

117 drones overnight

The attack came a day after a night of ballistic missiles, Zircon hypersonic missiles and 123 drones. This time Ukraine’s General Staff counted 117 attack drones of the Shahed and Gerbera types and “Parodiya” decoys, of which 63 were jet-powered. They were launched from the directions of Oryol, Kursk, Millerovo, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and from Hvardiiske in occupied Crimea. By 07:30 air defences had shot down or electronically neutralised 80 drones, including 39 jet-powered ones, and the General Staff recorded strikes at 24 locations and debris falling at ten more.

Odesa and Zaporizhzhia

In Odesa, the regional administration reported two dead and seven injured from the morning Russian strikes, which damaged private homes and cars. Five of the injured are in hospital, one in serious condition. In Chornomorsk, four people are still in hospital from an earlier Russian attack.

In Zaporizhzhia, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said a 17-year-old was killed and four people injured in two strikes on the city at around 06:30. Later, a Russian strike on an apartment block in the Kosmichnyi district started a fire, and Fedorov spoke of four injured. In the afternoon the State Emergency Service reported 13 injured in a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, among them five children, and 14 people rescued from their apartments, while the number of injured is not final. In the Sumy region, the same service recorded three injured in massed strikes on the Sosnivka municipality since the morning.