Massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine Thursday morning: At least 9 people killed, dozens injured. Kiev and Odessa, the hardest hit
Russia launched a major missile and drone attack on Kiev, Odesa and other Ukrainian cities, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, including children, according to Ukrainian authorities cited by Reuters.
Russian missile and drone attacks overnight killed six people and wounded 11 others in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, the head of the local military administration said Thursday morning. Serhii Lysak wrote on Telegram that infrastructure and a residential building were damaged.
In Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people, a 12-year-old child and a 35-year-old woman, had died. “Ten residents were injured. Six are hospitalized,” he wrote on Telegram.
In the southeastern city of Dnipro, where Russian attacks set fire to residential buildings, the regional governor said one person had been killed.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the capital's military administration, estimated the number of wounded in the city at 18, including a child.
Air raid alarms sounded over two hours in both Kiev and Dnipro. Images posted online showed fires raging out of control and smoke billowing into the sky.
A massive night-time Russian missile and drone attack is underway on Ukraine
Two have already been killed, including a 12-year-old boy in Kyiv, and 23 wounded
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Klitschko said rescue teams rescued a mother and child from a building in a central district where the ground floor was badly damaged.
He also said that a rocket hit the sixth floor of an apartment building in the central Podil district.
Klitschko said a massive fire broke out in a building in a neighborhood in the north of the capital and that four members of emergency medical crews were injured and debris from drones and missiles fell in several places.
In Dnipro, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha wrote on Telegram that one resident died. He noted that 10 people were injured and posted images showing residential buildings on fire.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city in the northeast, officials said two people were injured in drone attacks.
