2 killed, 18 injured after Russia launches air strikes on Kyiv and parts of Ukraine

Russia launched an air strike on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine that killed 2 people and left 18 injured.

Russia launched a massive air attack on the capital Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Thursday, killing 2 people and injuring at least 18 people. The strike damaged infrastructure facilities across the country, officials said.

• Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said seven people,
• including a 9-year girl, were injured in Kyiv.
• Missile debris fell in the city centre and an infrastructure
• facility and several non-residential buildings were damaged, causing a fire, he said.

Blasts were heard in Kyiv and the surrounding region after an air raid alert, Reuters witnesses said. Authorities reported sending rescue teams to several locations in the capital. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said people were injured in Kyiv and Cherkasy regions and in the city of Kharkiv in the east during the attack that came early in the morning. "It is a restless morning. Explosions were heard in different regions of Ukraine," he wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Klymenko said a hotel and several shopping kiosks were damaged in Cherkasy in central Ukraine and seven people were injured.

The emergency services posted a video on Telegram showing rescuers carrying out an injured man on a stretcher as a fire rages. Maksym Kozytskyi, Lviv's regional governor, said three Russian missiles hit the city of Drohobych in the west, about 60 kilometres from the Polish border. Kozytskiy said an infrastructure facility and warehouses were hit.

The interior ministry and regional officials reported blasts in Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskiy, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

In a separate overnight attack, two people were killed by Russian shelling of a dormitory in the southern city of Kherson, governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.

Emergency personnel stand at a site in a residential area that was damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine.(REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)