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The strikes hit 12 locations across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi,
Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential
buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution.
Emergency crews were at the scene and pulled people out from
under the rubble.
In Solomianskyi district, the top two floors of a 9-story
residential building were destroyed and fires broke out on other
floors. People were also trapped in two residential buildings
and a school shelter.
60-year-old Larysa Bondaruk sat on the ground, holding her cat,
Chanel, which had been rescued by firefighters.
With tears in her eyes, she said that her neighbor’s grandson
had been trapped under the rubble and died. Her apartment was
badly damaged.
“A rocket hit the roof. It was incredibly loud, immediately,
debris and doors were blown out. There were columns of smoke,
columns of fire, screams, crying and despair," she said. “Two
people were killed in our building, but the rescuers responded
quickly and professionally. I am grateful to them for that.”
Russia has intensified ballistic missile attacks on the capital
to wear down Kyiv's air defense stocks. Kyiv has limited systems
capable of intercepting ballistic threats, while supplies of
missiles for its U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems remain
chronically constrained.
U.S. President Donald Trump had authorized Ukraine to obtain
licenses to produce Patriot air-defense systems, but later
reversed that decision.
Ukraine, meanwhile, has intensified its own campaign of
long-range strikes against weapons depots, military facilities
and other strategic targets deep inside Russian territory,
seeking to degrade Moscow’s ability to sustain its attacks on
Ukrainian cities.
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