Children and pregnant woman among those injured in deadly Russian attack targeting all of Kyiv’s districts

Russia launched one of its largest missile and drone attacks on Kyiv in months on Thursday night, Ukrainian authorities said, triggering fires and damage across the capital.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said that the attack caused fires in several high-rise apartment buildings across the city. At least five people were reportedly killed. According to Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, at least 27 people were injured, including two children and a pregnant woman. 

Rescue workers said that in the city’s Desnianskyi district, one person died after a fire broke out across three floors of an apartment building. Another apartment complex in the same district had a fire break out on the seventh floor.

Fires in residential buildings were also reported in the Podil, Dnipro, Solomianskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, and Obolonskyi districts.

In the Holosiivskyi district, debris from missiles or drones fell on the territory of a hospital. In the Dnipro district, wooden structures at a sports facility caught fire, burning an area of about 200 square meters (2,150 square feet). In the Darnytsia district, a fire broke out on the grounds of a school.

Commenting on the assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it a “deliberately calculated attack aimed at causing maximum harm to people and civilian infrastructure.” He added that approximately 430 drones and 18 missiles were used in attack, which targeted the Kharkiv and Odesa regions in addition to the Kyiv region.