Missile strike on Kyiv causes fatality

Sunday, 26 June 2022, 10:20

SONIA LUKASHOVA, ROMAN PETRENKO  – SUNDAY, 26 JUNE 2022, 10:20

At least one person has been killed in a missile strike on Kyiv.

Source: Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs, in a comment to the Ukrainska Pravda at the scene

Details: According to Herashchenko, one man was killed.

Attempts are now being made to rescue his wife from under the rubble. Earlier, rescuers carried their 8-year-old child out of their house, and she has been admitted to hospital.

Herashchenko emphasises that the 36-year-old woman under the rubble is a Russian citizen.

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Updated: The woman has already been rescued from under the rubble and has been taken away by medics.

Background: Russian forces conducted an airstrike on the capital on the morning of 26 June.

Air defence was operational in the oblast - one [Russian] missile was shot down