Massive enemy attack': Russia pounds Ukraine's Kyiv, killing one

"The Ukrainian capital's Mayor Vitaly Klitschko says a pregnant woman is among several injured and hospitalised. A massive Russian attack on Kyiv has killed one person and wounded at least 15 others, Ukraine's state emergency service said. More than 40 people also had to be rescued as a result of the overnight assault into Friday, it added, with fires or damage to residential buildings reported in eight of the Ukrainian capital's 10 districts."

"Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko described it as a massive enemy attack, saying that a pregnant woman and a man in an extremely serious condition were among the hospitalised. A 55-year-old man in Bila Tserkva who suffered thermal burns was rushed to hospital, according to Mykola Kalashnyk, the head of the Kyiv region. Klitschko said the Russian attack had damaged part of the city's heating networks, noting that some buildings in the northeastern Desnyansky district were temporarily left without heat."

"Russians are hitting residential buildings. There are a lot of damaged high-rise buildings throughout Kyiv, almost in every district, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the city's military administration. Meanwhile, the Russian Defence Ministry said its forces had shot down more than 200 Ukrainian drones overnight. During the past night, air-defence assets intercepted and destroyed 216 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, it wrote on Telegram."

A massive Russian attack on Kyiv killed one person and wounded at least 15. A pregnant woman and a man in extremely serious condition were among those hospitalised. More than 40 people required rescue amid fires and damage to residential buildings in eight of the city's ten districts. Part of the city's heating networks was damaged, leaving some buildings in the northeastern Desnyansky district temporarily without heat. A 55-year-old man in Bila Tserkva suffered thermal burns and was hospitalised. Over 200 Ukrainian drones were reported shot down overnight, with 216 unmanned aerial vehicles intercepted and destroyed.

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