Emergency workers rescued a cat from a building damaged during drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022, as crews searched for survivors.
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READ MORE: Multiple explosive-laden drones attacked Ukraine’s capital during the Monday morning rush, a week after Russian missile strikes broke a period of relative calm in Kyiv.

Ukrainian officials said the drones were Iranian-made Shahed drones, which Russia has used to carry out so-called kamikaze attacks in which the drones are intentionally crashed into a target.

“All night and all morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram. “Kamikaze drones and missiles are attacking all of Ukraine. The enemy can attack our cities, but it won't be able to break us.”

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said among the areas hit was the central Shevchenko district, the same area where Russian missiles struck last week as part of widespread airstrikes across the country.

Klitschko said Monday’s attack damaged several apartment blocks and sparked a fire in a non-residential building. He said rescue workers pulled 18 people from the rubble of an apartment building and that two others remained trapped.

An official in Zelenskyy’s office said three people were killed in one of the residential buildings hit by a drone Monday. (Reuters/VOA)

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