Russian forces launched a large-scale overnight drone and missile attack on Kyiv, killing 15 people and injuring more than 30. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the dead included two children and reported 38 injured, while Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least three of the wounded were children. Officials reported damage to residential buildings across several districts and fires broke out throughout the city. The EU delegation building in Kyiv was damaged. Emergency crews are working at more than 20 sites; two apartment buildings on opposite sides of the Dnipro River suffered heavy damage and a five-storey block in Darnytskyi district was partly destroyed.
The attack also damaged the EU delegation's building in the city, EU Commissioner Marta Kos said on Thursday. "The EU Delegation in Kyiv was damaged by today's Russian strikes on civilian areas," Kos said in a post on X. "I strongly condemn these brutal attacks, a clear sign that Russia rejects peace and chooses terror. Our full solidarity goes to EU staff, their families, and all Ukrainians enduring this aggression."
"Unfortunately, the Russians' style is typical in their attacks," Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration, wrote on Telegram. "Combined strikes, from different directions. And systematic, targeting ordinary residential buildings." Officials listed numerous buildings that had suffered damage, including several high-rise apartment blocks. Tkachenko said there had been heavy damage to two apartment buildings on opposite sides of the Dnipro River.
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