- A drone and missile attack on Kyiv’s capital killed at least two people and injured eleven others
- Plumes of smoke were seen rising from the city center—an area rarely targeted in previous attacks.
- This marks the second major drone and missile strike on Kyiv within two weeks, indicating that the prospects for peace talks continue to fade.
A mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv’s capital killed at least two people and injured eleven others, according to AP.
Among the victims was a one-year-old child whose body was recovered from the rubble, as reported by the head of Kyiv’s city administration.
A fire broke out on the top floor of an administrative building in Pechersk district, where the cabinet of ministers is located. Plumes of smoke were seen rising from the city center—an area rarely targeted in previous attacks.
Debris from Russian drones struck residential buildings in the Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts, local reports confirmed.
This marks the second major drone and missile strike on Kyiv within two weeks, indicating that the prospects for peace talks continue to fade.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was initially quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that the attack early on Sunday killed an infant and a young woman, and sparked fires at several high-rise buildings in the city’s west and east.
Medics were called to the leafy Darnytskyi district to the east of the Dnipro River, where a four-storey apartment building caught fire from the debris of drones destroyed in the overnight attack, Klitschko added.
Drone debris also caused fires atop a 16-storey and two nine-storey buildings in the Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv’s west, he said.
Witnesses told Reuters they heard a series of explosions shaking the city, which sounded like air defence units in operation.
The Ukrainian news website Kyiv Independent also reported that an elderly woman died in a shelter in the city’s Darnytskyi district following the attack, although the cause of her death was not immediately clear.
The state emergency service confirmed at least one death in Kyiv and 18 injuries.
The attacks, which also knocked out power in the city, left smoke rising from the roof of Ukraine’s cabinet, housing the offices of its ministers.