Russian ballistic missiles and drones kill at least 4, injure 58 in mass overnight strike on Kyiv
Russia launched a mass overnight attack on Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones into Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring 58, including children, while damaging residential buildings and other civilian sites across the capital, the Kyiv City State Administration and Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said 58 people were known to have been injured, and 40 of them were hospitalized, including two children.
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View in Telegram.In the Podilskyi district, a strike on a nine-story building caused partial destruction of the upper floors. At least five people were reported injured there, and people may still be trapped under the rubble.
At other addresses in the district, a fire broke out in a four-story building on the grounds of an educational institution, and cars and a warehouse building also caught fire. Officials said falling drone debris caused fire to spread to other buildings.
In the Solomyanskyi district, fires broke out in an apartment on the 16th floor of a 20-story residential building, on the ninth floor of a 24-story building, and on private residential property. Rescuers were able to free one man.
In the Darnytskyi district, what was believed to be falling drone debris caused a fire on the grounds of a gas station.
In the Shevchenkivskyi district, debris damaged the facade and roof of a nine-story residential building and caused a fire in a nonresidential three-story building. Debris also started a fire between the fourth and fifth floors of a 24-story residential building.
In the Holosiyivskyi district, the Russian attack destroyed the second and third floors of a medical facility. Cars also caught fire there.
In the Sviatoshynskyi district, debris set off a fire on the first floor of a five-story residential building and also caused a fire in a nonresidential building.
In Kyiv’s Obolonskyi district, debris fell on the grounds of two kindergartens.
As of 7:30 a.m., the Russian air attack on Kyiv was still ongoing, with Russian forces striking the capital again with ballistic missiles.