A minimum of seven individuals have been killed and a number of other injured in an in a single day Russian missile and drone assault within the Kyiv area, the inside minister has stated.
In a put up on social media, Ihor Klymenko stated residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructure had been hit.
A minimum of six of those that died had been in a high-rise constructing within the capital, Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko stated, including that 22 others had been injured within the metropolis.
In latest weeks, Russia has been finishing up large aerial assaults on Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is travelling to London to debate the battle in a while Monday.
Within the newest barrage 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles focused Ukrainian territory, principally within the Kyiv space, the Ukrainian air power stated.
Ukraine’s emergencies service posted footage exhibiting shocked residents being led away from a destroyed high-rise constructing that was nonetheless burning.
An entrance to an underground metro stations was broken, native officers say. Many residents spent the night time sheltering in such stations.
Together with these killed within the capital, one particular person reportedly died after a drone struck a hospital within the metropolis of Bila Tserkva to the south.
It comes because the capital remains to be reeling from overnight Russian attacks on Tuesday which left at least 28 people dead and greater than 100 injured.
The assault was among the many largest on the capital because the begin of Russia’s full-scale warfare which started in February 2022.
