Ukraine, night of terror: Kiev hammered by Russian raids
At least 11 buildings throughout the city were hit, said Mayor Vitali Klitschko
The night in Kiev was ripped apart by one of the heaviest Russian bombardments on the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the war: at least six dead and dozens injured, fires in different parts of the city, with residents crammed into the streets strewn with rubble outside their apartment buildings.
Fear swept through the entire country, as far as Odessa, during the raids that allegedly employed 430 drones and 18 missiles, according to the local authorities. In this war without quarter, the Ukrainians responded by targeting, according to Moscow, the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant on Russian territory and one of the largest oil export terminals in the Black Sea.
In Kiev, residential buildings were attacked 'in practically every district', denounced the head of the military administration, Tymur Tkachenko.
Local officials said that most of the drones and missiles were shot down, but falling debris and fires damaged high-rise buildings, a school, a medical facility and administrative buildings in ;;nine districts. The six victims were all in an apartment building in the east, in Lisovyi, after a drone crashed, causing four floors to collapse.
At least 34 people were injured throughout the city, including two children and a pregnant woman. Two more deaths were reported after a bombing on a market in Chornomorsk, Odessa oblast. Once again, power outages were reported across the country. Moscow, as usual, spoke of 'attacks against facilities of Ukraine's military-industrial and energy complex' in 'response to the raids against our infrastructure'.
