Russia launched a New Year's Day drone strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Wednesday, killing two people, wounding at least six others and damaging buildings in two districts, authorities said.

As a result of the fall of UAV debris on a house in Pechersk district, during a drone strike against Kyiv, carried out by the army of the aggressor country Russia on the night of January 1, 2025, a well-known scientist-neurobiologist Igor Zima and his wife were killed, reports New Voice.

Wreckage from a Russian drone fell on a residential building in Kyiv's Pecherskyi district on the morning of 1 January, partially destroying the top two floors and causing a fire. Two people have been killed as a result of the attack.

Russia launched a drone strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Wednesday, killing one person, wounding six others and damaging buildings in two districts, city officials said. Explosions boomed across the morning sky as Ukraine's air force warned of drones approaching the capital and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said air defences were repelling an enemy attack.

Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones.

Married couple Ihor Zyma and Olesia Sokur both worked as scientists with the Institute for Biology and Medicine at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. They were killed in a Russian drone strike on Jan.

Ihor Zyma and Olesia Sokur, a husband and wife who were both scientists, were killed in a Russian drone attack on the city of Kyiv on the morning of 1 January. Source: Oksen Lisovyi, Ukraine's Minister of Education and Science,

Debris on a street from nearby buildings, hundreds of meters from Ukraine's Presidential Office after a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 1 2025.