Three Killed, Including Six Children Among 29 Injured, in Russian Airstrike on Kyiv

Ukrainian officials said on Sunday that three people were killed and 29 others injured, including six children, in a Russian overnight airstrike on Kyiv that destroyed two high-rise apartment buildings.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app that seven of the injured, among them two children, were taken to city hospitals for treatment.

He added that debris from destroyed Russian aerial weapons fell on a nine-story residential building in the city’s leafy Desnianskyi district, sparking a fire that quickly engulfed several floors. The blaze has since been extinguished.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported that 13 people were rescued from the upper floors of the building.

The full scale of the attack was not immediately clear. An air raid alert lasted for about 90 minutes over Kyiv and surrounding areas before the Ukrainian Air Force lifted it at around 0030 GMT.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their cross-border strikes. However, since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of people—mostly Ukrainians—have been killed in the ongoing conflict.