Russian drone hits apartment block in Kyiv: two killed, several injured – photos
Russian forces attacked an apartment block in Kyiv with a drone on the evening of 12 October, killing two people and injuring several others.
Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; Ukraine's Air Force; Kyiv City Military Administration; Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office
Quote from Klitschko: "A drone has hit a 25-storey residential building in the Darnytskyi district, at the level of the 11th to 15th floors. Cars in the courtyard are also on fire.
Emergency services are on their way to the site."
Details: The Ukrainian Air Force had previously reported a jet-powered drone in the city.
Update: Klitschko later said, citing early reports, that four people had been injured.
Kyiv City Military Administration reported that five people had been injured.
The mayor later said the number injured had risen to nine. Three were hospitalised.
As of 20:27, one person was known to have been killed and 11 injured.
Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office later reported that two people had been killed in the attack: a 59-year-old woman and another person who was in a car near the building.
According to the prosecutors, at least seven people were injured, sustaining shrapnel wounds, bruises and cuts. A 17-year-old girl was among those injured.
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