Russian drone and missile strikes on Kiev and its surroundings overnight killed seven people, injured dozens, set fires in residential areas and damaged the entrance to a metro station serving as a bomb shelter, Ukrainian officials said today, Reuters reports.
At least six people were killed in Kiev's busy Shevchenkivskyi district, where an entire section of a residential skyscraper was destroyed, Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kiev military administration, said via the Telegram messaging app.
Four children were among the 25 wounded in the attack, he added.
"The Russian style is unchanged - they strike where there may be people. Residential buildings, exits from shelters - that's the Russian style," Tkachenko said.
Russia has not commented on the attacks.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia launched in February 2022, but thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict - the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
At least four people were killed in the busy Shevchenkivskyi district of Kiev, where the entire entrance to a high-rise residential building was destroyed, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said earlier on Telegram.
Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said more people could be under the rubble after the overnight attacks caused damage in six of the city's ten districts.
"Honestly, I wasn't scared. It was more like my life froze. You're frozen, looking at all this and thinking how you're going to live," said a 75-year-old local resident who identified herself only as Lyudmila.
A 68-year-old woman was killed and at least eight people were injured in an attack on the greater Kiev region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, Governor Nikolay Kalashnik said on Telegram.
Photos released by Ukraine's State Emergency Service showed rescuers leading people to safety from several burning buildings and structures in the dark. The service said a pregnant woman was among those rescued.
The exit from the metro station in Kiev's Svyatoshinsky district was also damaged, as was the adjacent bus stop, Kiev officials said earlier, as reported by Reuters.
Kiev's metro stations were used throughout the war as some of the safest bomb shelters.
Russia's deadliest attack on Kiev last week, with hundreds of drones, killed 28 people and injured more than 150, with Ukrainian officials saying nearly 30 sites were hit during the multi-wave attack.
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