Rescue workers pull family with child from under rubble after Russian strike on Kyiv Oblast

Rescue workers have pulled a family of four – a mother, father, grandmother, and a five-year-old child – from under the rubble in the Brovary district in Kyiv Oblast.

Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Quote: "Rescue workers have freed a family from Brovary from under the rubble: a mother, father, grandmother and a five-year-old child.

All those affected have been hospitalised and are receiving medical treatment."

Details: Russian forces attacked most districts of Kyiv Oblast overnight. Fires broke out in residential and outbuildings in the Brovary, Obukhiv and Boryspil districts.

Firefighters worked at 11 locations. All fires have now been extinguished.

Background:

• On the evening of 8 January, explosions were heard in Kyiv following a Russian drone attack. A drone struck the roof of a residential building in the Desnianskyi district. Four people were killed.
• On the evening of 8 January, explosions were heard in Lviv after an air-raid warning was issued. It later emerged that a critical infrastructure facility in Lviv Oblast had been hit.
• Colonel Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Department of Ukraine's Air Force Command, said in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda that Russia may have launched a strike on Lviv Oblast from the Kapustin Yar testing range in Russia's Astrakhan Oblast, where, according to early reports, the Oreshnik missile system is based.
• Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said it is currently unknown whether Russia used an Oreshnik missile in the attack on Lviv Oblast.

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