At the very least 4 individuals have been killed in an in a single day Russian missile and drone assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the inside minister says.
In a publish on social media, Ihor Klymenko says residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructure had been hit.
“A complete part of a residential high-rise constructing was destroyed” within the worst-hit Shevchenkivskyi district, he says, including that some individuals are trapped below the rubble.
Within the Kyiv area, a girl was killed and one other two individuals injured within the Russian aerial assault, regional head Mykola Kalashnyk says.
The Russian army has not commented on the problem.
Ukraine’s emergencies service DSNS says 13 individuals – together with two youngsters and a pregnant lady – had been injured in Kyiv.
It has posted footage displaying shocked residents being led away from a destroyed high-rise constructing which was nonetheless burning.
Numerous blazes are reported throughout the capital.
An entrance to one of many metropolis’s underground metro stations was broken within the Russian assault, native officers say.
Many residents of Kyiv spent the evening sheltering in such stations.
In latest weeks, Russia has been finishing up huge aerial assaults on Kyiv and different Ukrainian cities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
