Russia attacks Kyiv at night and during day: 3 killed, 14 injured – photos, video
Three people were killed and 14 others were injured in Russia's latest attacks on Kyiv on the night of 7-8 July and during the day on 8 July.
Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; State Emergency Service in Kyiv
Quote from Klitschko: "The number of people injured in the capital has risen to 14. Nine of them were taken to hospital. Two of the injured are in a serious condition. Three people were killed."
Details: Earlier, the State Emergency Service in Kyiv reported that Russian attacks on Kyiv on the day of 8 July left two people dead and nine injured.
A woman was killed and two other people were injured in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on the night of 7-8 July.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service said that during the day, Kyiv's Desnianskyi district came under a UAV attack, with strikes recorded at two locations.
"At one of the locations, unfortunately, six people were injured and one person was killed. At another, a UAV hit a three-story warehouse building, where the fire spread to an adjacent building. So far, we know of three injured and one killed," the report says.
The State Emergency Service added that firefighters have extinguished a fire covering an area of 900 sq m.
Background:
- Residents of Kyiv heard explosions on the night of 7-8 July before an air-raid warning was issued. Earlier reports said one person had been killed and two injured.
- Later, the State Emergency Service reported that the body of a woman was found during the extinguishing of a fire in the Sviatoshynskyi district.
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