The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported that a drone struck a residential high-rise in Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district at the level of the 9th–10th floors and caused a fire. Rescuers evacuated seven people to fresh air, and 30 apartments and the cars parked beneath the building were damaged.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote that there are nine casualties in the city after the attack, seven of them in the Pecherskyi district, and eight people were hospitalized. According to the Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office, the deceased was a resident of one of the apartments in the building.
Another drone struck a 25-story residential building in the Solomianskyi district at the level of the fourth floor, while another flew into a five-story non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district. In the Kyiv region, according to the authorities, nine sites were damaged in the Brovary, Boryspil, and Obukhiv districts.
According to the authorities, Russian forces have been attacking Kyiv and the region for the fifth day in a row. The day before, two people were killed in Kyiv as a result of ballistic missile and drone strikes, and eight more were injured.
On Wednesday, Russia also carried out drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital: two people were killed, and the total number of casualties reached 45. A warehouse and the Darnytsia pharmaceutical plant were hit, on Tuesday eight civilians were injured in Russian attacks, and drones damaged the facade of a five-story building and set fire to a fuel tank.
On Monday, the Kyiv region was again hit by massive attacks: the strikes targeted private homes, warehouse and production facilities, a dormitory, administrative buildings, gas stations, and other sites. In the Obukhiv district, a local woman suffered injuries to her leg and arm.
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