Search and rescue ends after 28 hours at Kyiv strike site as death toll hits 24, including three children
24 people were killed, including three children, after a Russian missile struck a multi-story residential building in Kyiv on Thursday, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said search-and-rescue operations in the city's Darnytskyi district had concluded after more than 28 hours. SES units have since transitioned to emergency recovery work.
Among the dead were a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl. In total, 48 people were injured in the strike across Kyiv, including two children. 30 people were rescued.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said preliminary reports indicate the building was hit by an Kh-101 cruise missile.
Damage was recorded across 20 locations in Kyiv, affecting residential buildings, a school, a veterinary clinic and other civilian infrastructure.
Kyiv declared May 15 an official day of mourning for those killed in the attack.
Background on the attack
Ukraine's Defense Intelligence warned on Wednesday evening that Russia had launched a large-scale combined air attack that could be prolonged. By that evening, Russian forces had fired 753 strike drones and decoy drones at Ukraine; air defenses shot down 710. Including the overnight assault, more than 892 enemy drones were launched within a 24-hour period.
The overnight attack involved 731 aerial weapons in total — 56 missiles and 675 drones. Most were intercepted, but 15 missiles and 23 strike drones hit 24 locations, while the wreckage of downed drones fell across 18 additional sites. Kyiv was the primary target of the overnight assault.