Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said early on Sunday.

Russian drones caused fires in two residential buildings in the capital’s Desniansky district. Emergency crews evacuated civilians from a nine-storey and a 16-storey building, put out flames and cleared the rubble.

Olha Yevhenivha, 74, said there was so much smoke from the fire that she could not leave her flat.

“Even until now our windows are totally black from the smoke, and it was impossible to go down, so that’s why we put wet blankets on our doors and balcony,” she said.

Ihor Motchanyi, a football player, said he and his parents “miraculously survived” after a drone sparked a fire inside their home the day after his 25th birthday.