Five injured in Kyiv after Russian attack, fire breaks out in one district

Five people have been injured in a Russian attack on the city of Kyiv and a fire has broken out in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital.

Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko

Quote: "As of now, four people had sought medical treatment following the enemy attack on the capital. Three of them have been taken to hospital. One person was treated on an outpatient basis."

Details: A fire has broken out in the Holosiivskyi district. Early reports indicated that a car service station is on fire.

In addition, debris fell in a dacha cooperative's territory in the Obolonskyi district. [A dacha is a sort of a summer house, usually with a little plot of land where people grow vegetables, fruit trees and berries, or keep a garden; a cooperative dacha community is an association of individuals, each of whom has a dacha plot within the same territory – ed.]

Debris also landed in an open area in the Desnianskyi district.

Emergency services are working at the scenes.

Later, Klitschko added that the number of people injured had risen to five.

Quote: "Five people have been injured in the capital. Four of them have been hospitalised."

Background: Russian forces attacked Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast on the night of 26-27 December, injuring one man and damaging buildings.

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