At least 4 folks had been killed in a Russian missile through the night time and in an assault on drones to the Ukrainian capital Kiev, says the inside minister.
In a put up on social media, Ihor Klymenko says that residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructures have been affected.
“An total part of a residential skyscraper was destroyed” in essentially the most affected Shevchenkivskiki district, he says, including that some persons are trapped beneath the rubble.
In the Kiev area, a girl was killed and two different folks wounded within the Russian air assault, says the regional chief Mykola Kalashnyk.
The Russian military didn’t touch upon the query.
Ukraine DSNS emergency service says that 13 folks – together with two youngsters and a pregnant lady – had been injured in Kiev.
He has printed motion pictures displaying shocked residents carried out by a destroyed skyscraper constructing that was nonetheless burning.
A variety of flames are reported all through the capital.
An entrance to one of many metropolis underground metropolitan stations was broken within the Russian assault, native officers say.
Many Kiev residents have spent the night time sheltered in such stations.
In current weeks, Russia has made monumental air assaults in Kyiv and different Ukrainian cities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an Vast Scala of Ukraine in February 2022.