Russian attack on Ukraine shakes Kyiv for hours

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia entered service a large-scale attack By Thursday, intense attacks on Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones had caused violent explosions and shook Kiev for hours.

Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said residential buildings were damaged in the attacks, which killed one person and injured many others. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 11 people were injured.

The attack using ballistic, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles affected all 10 districts of the city on both banks of the Dnipro River. After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials made their first warnings about the attack, many residents took shelter in metro stations.

There is Russia Intensified attacks on Kiev In recent weeks, even Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign against Russian military and energy facilities caused fuel shortages and disrupted supply lines Inside Russia.

Klitschko called on residents to stay in shelters, describing the ongoing “angry enemy attack” in the capital.

He said five people were injured in the Shevchenkivskyi district and the condition of one of the injured, a paramedic, was extremely critical.

Klitschko said people were trapped in a damaged nine-storey residential building in the Desnianskyi district and rescue teams went to the scene. A fire broke out on the roof of a multi-storey building in the Holosiivskyi district.

House fires broke out in Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts, and debris trapped people in buildings.

The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, said that the attack partially destroyed a residential building in the Desnianskyi district, a fire broke out near residential buildings at two points in the Pecherskyi district, and a fire broke out near an administrative building in the Solomianskyi district. Authorities also recorded damage in Obolonskyi and Podilskyi districts, he said.