Russia's latest attack on Kyiv: five killed, including child, 44 people injured and 20 still missing – photos, video
As of 12:00 on 14 May, five people are known to have been killed, including a 12-year-old child, and 44 injured in a combined Russian missile and drone attack on the city of Kyiv. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has reported that 20 people are still missing.
Source: Pavlo Petrov, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv, on the national joint 24/7 newscast; Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko; Kyiv police; Tymur Tkachenko, Head of Kyiv City Military Administration
Update: At about 13:00, Tkachenko reported that the death toll had risen to five.
The mayor clarified that the body of a 12-year-old girl was recovered from under the rubble in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district.
Quote from the Kyiv police: "The number of people killed in the Darnytskyi district has risen to four. Two men aged 21 and 30 and a woman whose identity is currently being established have been recovered from under the rubble of a destroyed section of an apartment block."
Details: Law enforcement officers said another man died in hospital after being injured in a Russian attack on a petrol station.
Update: Klitschko reported later that the number of people injured had risen to 44, including two children, one of whom was a one-month-old baby.
"Forty-four people have been injured in the capital as a result of the enemy large-scale attack. Among them are two children. Thirty-one of the injured have been taken to hospital, including one child," Klitschko said.
Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has said "more than 10 people are still believed to be missing". Search and rescue operations are under way. Six dog-handling teams have been deployed in the operation.
Later, the State Emergency Service said that "at least 20 people are known to have been missing".
Details: Klitschko said part of a residential building had collapsed in the Darnytskyi district, destroying 18 apartments in total.
Rescue workers managed to save 27 people in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district, but people may still be trapped under the rubble of the damaged residential building.
"Emergency response operations are currently ongoing in the Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi districts," Petrov added.
Klitschko also reported water supply disruptions on the left bank of the city following the attack.
Background:
- A part of a high-rise residential building collapsed during the combined Russian strike on Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 16.
- Seven people, including a child, were injured in the overnight Russian attack on Kyiv Oblast.
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