One person killed as drone struck confectionery factory in Kyiv

- 24 January, 12:00
Building of the Roshen confectionary factory in Kyiv damaged in a Russian strike. Photo: Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office

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 SES: "There is destruction on the upper floor of a confectionery factory in the Holosiivskyi district as a result of the attack. One person has been killed and two others have been injured."

Details: Viktoriia Siumar said that a 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, without specifying which Roshen facility had been hit.

Building of the Roshen confectionary factory in Kyiv damaged in a Russian strike.

Background:

  • Ukraine's energy authorities have said that a recent large-scale Russian strike on energy infrastructure left some consumers without power in Kyiv and in Kyiv Oblast, Chernihiv and Kharkiv oblasts.
  • Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that damage to critical infrastructure had left nearly 6,000 apartment buildings without heating again.

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