Woman killed in Russian drone strike on confectionery factory in Kyiv
A Russian strike has hit a Roshen confectionery factory in Kyiv, killing a woman and injuring two other people.
Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) on social media; Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office on social media; Viktoriia Siumar, an MP in the Ukrainian parliament from the European Solidarity faction, on Facebook
Quote from the SES: "The upper floor of a confectionery factory in the Holosiivskyi district has been destroyed as a result of the attack. One person has been killed and two others injured."
Details: Viktoriia Siumar said the direct hit, by a Shahed-type drone, killed a woman at the Roshen factory. [Roshen is a major international confectionery corporation based in Ukraine founded by former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko - ed.]
Quote from Siumar: "She was working in the production workshop… The workshop has also been seriously damaged."
More details: Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office also reported the strike but did not specify which Roshen facility had been hit.
Background:
- Russia's latest large-scale strike on energy infrastructure has left some consumers without power in the city of Kyiv and Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kyiv oblasts.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that damage to critical infrastructure has left nearly 6,000 apartment buildings without heating again.
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