Russia attacks Kyiv with ballistic missiles, damaging metro station and injuring civilians

Russia launched another missile attack on the city of Kyiv on the night of 18-19 October, damaging one of the city's metro stations. Three people were injured when debris struck a residential building.

Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; Ukraine's Air Force; Kyiv City Military Administration; alerts.in.ua

Quote from Klitschko: "The enemy attack has damaged one metro station on the left bank of the capital. Nearby, debris has also struck the track, causing a break in the running and contact rails."

Details: Klitschko said debris had also struck the ground floor of a 25-storey residential building in the Solomianskyi district and a non-residential building at a different address.

Meanwhile, a strike was recorded on the grounds of a non-residential development in the Dniprovskyi district.

Update: Klitschko said that three people had been injured in the Solomianskyi district, where missile debris hit the 25-storey residential building.

Medical personnel treated them at the scene.

Background:

• A ballistic missile attack was reported in Kyiv on 18 October, with powerful explosions heard across the city.
• It later emerged that several districts of the capital had been hit. A 21-year-old woman was killed and three people injured as a result of the Russian attack.

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