Death toll from Russian strike on Kyiv rises to 26, including 3 children – photos
The death toll from the Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of 30-31 July has risen to 26, including three children. Another 159 people have been injured, including 16 children.
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs
Quote: "Emergency workers have retrieved 10 bodies from under the rubble of a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district overnight and in the morning, including the body of a two-year-old child."
Details: The rescue operation is ongoing.
Background:
- On the night of 30-31 July, Russian forces attacked the city of Kyiv with drones and missiles.
- Twenty-seven locations across four districts of the capital were affected by the attack.
- Six-year-old Matvii Marchenko was killed in the Russian attack on Kyiv. He was a student of a Kyiv karate club. It was also reported that Liliia Stepanchuk, a patrol police officer, was one of those killed in Russia's overnight missile strike on Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district.
- In addition, Hromadske journalist Nataliia Mazina and her husband Dmytro Mazin were injured in the drone strike on Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district. Their apartment was damaged.
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