Seven killed in Kyiv in new Russian aerial assault

No less than seven folks have been killed and several other injured in an in a single day Russian missile and drone assault within the Kyiv area, the inside minister has stated.

In a publish on social media, Ihor Klymenko stated residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructure had been hit.

No less than six of those that died have been in a high-rise constructing within the capital, Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko stated, including that 22 others have been injured within the metropolis.

In current weeks, Russia has been finishing up huge aerial assaults on Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is travelling to London to debate the battle in a while Monday.

Within the newest barrage 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles focused Ukrainian territory, principally within the Kyiv space, the Ukrainian air drive stated.

Ukraine’s emergencies service posted footage displaying shocked residents being led away from a destroyed high-rise constructing that was nonetheless burning.

An entrance to an underground metro stations was broken, native officers say. Many residents spent the night time sheltering in such stations.

Together with these killed within the capital, one particular person reportedly died after a drone struck a hospital within the metropolis of Bila Tserkva to the south.

It comes because the capital remains to be reeling from in a single day Russian assaults on Tuesday which left at the least 28 folks lifeless and greater than 100 injured.

The assault was among the many greatest on the capital for the reason that begin of Russia’s full-scale conflict which started in February 2022.