Overnight strikes by Russian drones and missiles on Kyiv and surrounding areas resulted in the deaths of at least 10 individuals, including a child, along with fires in residential neighborhoods and damage to a shelter entrance at a metro station, according to Ukrainian officials.
Rescue teams retrieved bodies from the wreckage of an apartment building in Kyiv’s busy Shevchenkivsky district, located less than a kilometer from the U.S. Embassy. The Interior Ministry confirmed that at least nine fatalities occurred in that district.
Valeri Mancuta, 33, recounted how he escaped from his third-floor window after his building was hit by a missile. Photographs from Reuters captured multiple explosions over the area’s apartment complexes.
“There were bricks on me, and something in my mouth. It was pure chaos. I woke up amidst the ruins,” Mancuta, a construction worker, shared.
Emergency services reported that at least 34 individuals, including four children, sustained injuries during the attacks in Kyiv.
From midnight until nearly dawn, the city experienced a series of explosions and gunfire from anti-aircraft units attempting to intercept drones.
Ukraine’s air force indicated that they successfully downed 339 out of 352 drones and 15 out of 16 missiles launched by Russia across four Ukrainian regions.
In a separate missile strike in Ukraine’s Black Sea region of Odessa around noon on Monday, at least two people lost their lives and 12 were injured, as reported by local governor Oleh Kiper. Moscow has intensified drone and missile assaults on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities recently, as peace talks to resolve the conflict, which escalated with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, have seen little progress. Today’s onslaught occurred just before NATO’s annual summit in The Hague, and while President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Britain to discuss defense matters.
Russia has not issued any comments regarding the recent attacks.
Damage to a Police Station and Subway Shelter
Firefighters worked to control a blaze that erupted in the swimming pool of the National Technical University, also known as Kyiv Polytechnic University. The expansive campus has facilities for aerospace technology. Several academic buildings and four dormitories were also impacted, according to a statement from the institution.
Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko stated that people might still be trapped under the rubble following the overnight assaults, which damaged six of the city’s ten districts.
Additionally, an entrance to a metro station in the Svyatochinsky district was also reported damaged by officials.
The Kyiv metro stations, which are located at significant depths, served as the safest shelters from bombings during the war.
In the greater Kyiv area, a 68-year-old woman was killed, and at least eight others were injured, according to local officials. Russia launched one of its deadliest attacks on Kyiv last week, deploying hundreds of drones, resulting in 28 fatalities and over 150 injuries.
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