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Overnight attack damages 16 residential buildings, injures 1 in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district – official

In Kyiv's Holosiivsky district, 16 residential buildings and an educational institution were damaged, and a fire broke out in storage premises due to an enemy attack overnight, reported Head of District State Administration Sofia Dunayevska.

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society worked at the site of a response to an overnight massed missile and drone attack in Kyiv's Holosiivsky district.

A daylight Russian strike hit the Kyiv premises of television channels My-Ukraina and My-Ukraina+, according to Euromaidan Press. The main blow landed on the newsroom and working offices while My-Ukraina was live on the national newscast.

Rescuers and medics worked at the site, treating the injured. The State Emergency Service reported that a business center in the Solomianskyi district suffered fire and structural destruction, with five people injured, a preliminary figure. Two people were evacuated from the upper floors.

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