Kyiv hit by lethal Russian missile and drone assault

At the least two individuals have been killed and 54 injured, together with youngsters, in an in a single day Russian missile and drone assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the mayor says.

Vitali Klitschko says falling drone wreckage triggered plenty of fires within the metropolis, and there are fears that plenty of individuals could also be trapped underneath the rubble of a destroyed residential constructing.

Ukraine’s state emergencies service DSNS later reported 9 killed and 63 injured, citing preliminary knowledge.

Blasts have been additionally reported by native officers within the north-eastern metropolis of Kharkiv, which additionally got here underneath assault. At the least two individuals have been injured.

In a put up on social media, Mayor Klitschko wrote that six youngsters and a pregnant girl have been amongst these injured within the in a single day Russian assault.

“Fires broke out in six areas,” he mentioned, including that there “persons are underneath the rubble” of a destroyed residential constructing.

Rescuer groups have been seen combing by means of the wreckage as they looked for survivors.

The worst-hit was the western Svyatoshynskyi district of the capital, Klitschko mentioned.

Footage has emerged on social media purportedly exhibiting missiles hitting Kyiv, triggering enormous blazes.

In Kharkiv, about 40km (25 miles) from the Russian border, two individuals have been injured, Mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned.

He mentioned “non-public homes” have been broken within the in a single day Russian missile and drone assault.

Ukraine’s air drive warned that nearly all of the nation’s areas have been underneath the specter of air strikes.

The Russian navy has not commented on the reported assaults.