Russian strike on Kyiv: 5 killed and 65 injured, people may be trapped under rubble – photos, video
Five people have been killed and 65 injured in an overnight Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv.
Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Tymur Tkachenko, Head of Kyiv City Military Administration; Kateryna Pop, spokeswoman for Kyiv City Military Administration
Update: After 11:00, Pop said during the national joint 24/7 newscast that the death toll from the Russian strike had risen to five.
"Information has currently been confirmed that five people were killed as a result of the overnight attack," she said.
Klitschko clarified that the fifth person killed in the attack was a man who died in hospital.
Details: The mayor added that the number of people injured had risen to 65, including three children aged 3, 11 and 17.
Pop said that two power engineers were also among those injured.
Details: The State Emergency Service added that a strike on a nine-storey residential building in the Podilskyi district had caused the partial collapse of the upper floors. People may be trapped under the rubble. Rescue operations are ongoing.
Cars also caught fire in an open area in this district and a fire broke out in a four-storey building on premises belonging to an educational institution.
In addition, vehicles and a warehouse building are on fire on the grounds of a municipal enterprise.
Background:
- Ukraine's Air Force reported on the night of 1-2 June that the Russians had launched Kalibr cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea.
- An air-raid warning was issued in Kyiv and several Ukrainian oblasts due to the threat of the Russians using ballistic weapons and drones.
- Russian forces attacked Kyiv with drones and missiles, killing four people. Fires and destruction were recorded in seven districts. In particular, a partial structural collapse occurred in a nine-storey residential building in the Podilskyi district. The first and second floors of a clinic were destroyed in the Holosiivskyi district. Debris hit the upper floors of a 15-storey residential building in the Solomianskyi district and a fire broke out on the sixth and seventh floors of a 24-storey building.
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