Russia latest drone and missile strikes in and around Kyiv overnight claimed the lives of seven people and wounded dozens, sparked fires in residentials areas and damaged the enttrance to a metro station bomb shelter, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.
According to Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration on Telegram, at least six peole were killed in Kyiv’s busy Shevchenkivskyi district where an entire section of a residential high-rise building was destroyed
He added saying 25 people were injured including four children.
“The Russians’ style is unchanged – to hit where there may be people,” Tkachenko said. “Residential buildings, exits from shelters – this is the Russian style.”
Moscow has increased drone and missile raids on Kyiv and other Ukrainian towns in recent weeks, as talks to end the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, have not generated results.
Both sides deny targeting civilians, yet thousands of people, mostly Ukrainians, have been killed in the conflict. Russia has not reacted to the recent strikes.
Ukraine’s interior minister Ihor Klymenko said people could still be under the rubble after the overnight attacks caused damage in six of the city’s 10 districts.
“To be honest, it wasn’t like I got scared. It was more like my life was frozen,” said a 75-year-old local resident who only gave her first name, Liudmyla. “You’re frozen, looking at all of it and thinking about how you will live.”
