Overnight, the Russian army launched a massive strike on Kyiv, killing three people, including a baby and a young woman, and injuring 18 others. This was reported by the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko.
According to him, after a drone attack and rocket strikes in the city center, a fire broke out in a government building. Reuters witnesses saw thick smoke over the Pechersky district. Among those injured in the hospital is a pregnant woman.
Klitschko specified that another victim was an elderly woman who died in a shelter in the Darnytsky district. There, a four-story residential building caught fire as a result of the drone strikes, and part of it was destroyed.
Houses in the Svyatoshyn district also suffered severe damage: several floors of a nine-story building were damaged, and debris from the drones caused fires in a 16-story and two nine-story buildings.
The head of the city’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said that Russia was “deliberately and purposefully targeting civilian objects.”
At the same time, strikes were also recorded in other regions: dozens of explosions were heard in Kremenchuk, leaving part of the city without electricity; transport and urban infrastructure was damaged in Kryvyi Rih; residential buildings burned after being hit in Odesa.
Against the backdrop of the threat to western Ukraine, Poland scrambled its own and allied aircraft to monitor air security, according to the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command.