Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 12, damages children’s hospital, says city mayor
Kyiv — At least a dozen people have been killed and more than 30 others wounded in a “massive” Russian attack on Kyiv overnight into Thursday, the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The strikes damaged a hospital, a school, residential buildings and several warehouses across the city, local authorities said. CNN producers in the Ukrainian capital … The post Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least…
The city of Kyiv, Ukraine, bore the brunt of a powerful Russian attack overnight into Thursday that killed at least 12 people and wounded over 30 others, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The massive assault damaged numerous buildings, including a children's hospital, a school, residential homes and warehouses scattered across the city. Eyewitnesses described hearing numerous explosions and witnessing thick plumes of smoke rising into the night sky.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have launched a "massive strike using high-precision weapons" targeting military installations, a logistics center and warehouses in Kyiv and the surrounding region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of meticulously preparing the attack, employing a combination of cruise missiles, drones and other projectiles to inflict maximum damage on civilian infrastructure.
Emergency services reported pulling two individuals from the debris and continuing efforts to manage the aftermath. One casualty was a man in the Brovary district, as stated by Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration. The attack also caused extensive damage to a children's hospital in the Solomianskyi district, with windows shattered, reported Mayor Klitschko.
The assault extended beyond Kyiv's borders, with Russia targeting gas infrastructure in the Chernihiv region and a border crossing with Moldova in the Odesa region, as reported by Ukrainian President Zelensky. In a separate incident, Romania's defense ministry announced that a Russian drone had crash-landed in Romanian territory, landing in an uninhabited area near the Ukrainian border.
Poland responded to the escalating situation by initiating preventative military aviation operations to safeguard its airspace during the strikes. Russian state-run TASS News claimed this was among the largest Ukrainian drone attacks since the beginning of the year, with many of these unmanned aerial vehicles targeting Moscow, a region home to Russia's elite.
Ukrainian forces unleashed more than 800 drones against Russia on Sunday, one of their largest aerial assaults to date. In response, Russia's defense ministry reported intercepting and destroying 791 Ukrainian drones overnight, part of a significant counterattack by Kyiv.
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