Number injured rises to 26 after Russian attack on Kyiv
The number of people injured in Russia's attack on Kyiv has risen 26, including medics, emergency workers and police officers.
Source: Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office; Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, press officer of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES), in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda
Quote: "Another 26 people sustained injuries. Among the injured were five rescue workers of the State Emergency Service, four medical workers and a policeman."
Correction: Earlier, the news item mentioned five fatalities with a reference to Ukrinform, which quoted the SES press officer Oleksandr Khorunzhyi.
The SES clarified that only four deaths have been recorded so far.
Quote from Khorunzhyi: "I apologize, I want to correct the previous information. Perhaps I said that five people were killed. We have four dead as a result of the attack, 25 were injured. Thank you."
In a comment to Ukrainska Pravda, Khorunzhyi confirmed that he made an error: four people have been reported as killed.
Background:
- Explosions were heard in Kyiv on the evening of 8 January as Russia attacked the capital with drones. In the Desnianskyi district, a UAV hit the roof of an apartment block. Earlier reports indicated that four people had been 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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