Air defense shoots down russian drone not far from place where Starmer and Zelenskyy met

Foreign journalists drew attention to the fact that not far from the place where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Kyiv air defense shot down russian drones.

The Guardian writes about this.

The meeting of the politicians took place at the Mariinskyi Palace. The work of Ukrainian air defense and the sounds of the buzzing of a russian drone could be clearly heard near this place.

Journalists suggested that the drone was a decoy target that was supposed to exhaust Ukrainian air defense.

As a reminder, powerful explosions were heard in Kyiv during the day, and air defense was working over the capital.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the wreckage of an enemy drone fell in the Solomianskyi District of Kyiv on January 16. As a result, a car was damaged.

Later, the wreckage of a drone was found in the Dniprovskyi District. The facade of a building was damaged there.

Meanwhile, on the night of January 16, the aggressor state russia attacked Ukraine with 55 Shaheds and various types of drones. Air defense forces destroyed 34 UAVs, another 18 did not reach their targets.

And on the morning of January 16, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Kyiv to sign an agreement on a 100-year partnership.