At least nine dead and more than 70 injured in a Russian attack against kyiv
At least nine people have died and more than 70 have been injured in an attack that Russia launched at dawn against the Ukraine capital, Interior Minister Igor Klimenko reports Thursday.
“At 7:30 (6:30 in Peninsular Spain), a total of nine people have died in kyiv as a result of Russian attack. More than 70 have suffered wounds of different consideration,” he writes in his Telegram account.
At least 42 people have been hospitalized, including six children, according to the State Emergency Service (DSNS), while continuing the search for people under the rubble of residential buildings that were damaged in the attack.
According to the head of the Military Administration of the city of kyiv, Timur Tkachenko, Russia launched drones, guided missiles and ballistic missiles against the capital of Ukraine. Damages were recorded in several kyiv districts, especially that of Sviathin, where there was a fire and partial destruction in two residential buildings. There were also fires in garages, administrative buildings and commercial real estate, according to Tkachenko and the DSNS. Cars and dry grass burned due to the fall in fragments of the drones and missiles exploited or demolished.
Klimenko has explained on Telegram that, in addition to kyiv, Russia massively attacked the regions of Yitomir, Dnipropetrovsk, Járkov, Poltava, Jmelnitski, Sumi and Zaporiyia, but that kyiv’s was the one that suffered the most. “The situation in the district of Sviathin was tragic. The debris of a destroyed house is still being removed. Engineers, lifeguards and search dogs intervene. Telephone calls are heard from under the debris (…),” he says. There is also information about two children who still do not appear in the place of the attack, he adds.
The night attack against kyiv occurred after Ukraine has repeatedly requested in recent days a truce in missile attacks and long distance drones against civil infrastructure that Russia has refused to declare. (EFE)
