Key facts
- Ukraine's State Emergency Service said drone debris caused the fire, which partially destroyed the second floor of the medical facility.
- First responders rescued seven people from the facility in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district.
- Russian forces targeted multiple Ukrainian cities overnight on November 12-13, nearly two days after trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi ended.
- On November 12, Russian attacks killed 10 and injured 40 across Ukraine, hitting power grids, warehouses and agricultural sites in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr oblasts.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said on November 12 that Starshield satellite communications faced renewed disruptions, limiting speeds to 161 kilometers per hour and hindering interception of Russian drones.
Debris from a downed Russian drone ignited a fire at a medical facility in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district in the early morning of November 13, injuring three people and leading to the evacuation of 30, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service. The fire partially destroyed the building's second floor, and first responders rescued seven people from the facility.
Across Ukraine, Russian forces targeted multiple cities overnight on November 12-13, almost two days after trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi concluded. On November 12, Russian attacks killed 10 people and injured 40 others, with strikes on power grids, warehouses and agricultural facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr oblasts.
For months, Russian forces have increased attacks on Kyiv, a city around the same size as Berlin, causing mass blackouts and power outages. Russia has frequently struck energy and transportation infrastructure in Ukrainian cities since the start of the heating season.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on November 12 that Ukraine's military was again experiencing significant disruptions to the Starshield satellite communications system, the militarized version of Starlink, following a brief return to operational capacity. In a post on X after briefings by Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara and Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi, Zelensky said restrictions limit Starshield's operating speed to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). He said the limitations make it significantly harder for Ukrainian forces to intercept Russian jet-powered drones, and that some Russian strikes had already succeeded because Ukrainian interceptor systems could not reach the necessary speed in time.