The Russian Federation’s combined attack on Kyiv claimed the lives of nine people, with dozens more injured
In Kyiv, the death toll from the massive Russian attack on the night of 6 July has risen to nine. According to Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, 46 people were injured, including five children. He noted that these figures are not final, as the search and rescue operation is still ongoing.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, at least 15 residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed.
The worst damage was recorded in the Podilskyi district. In one of the residential buildings, the structure collapsed from the ninth to the fifth floors. Rescuers brought 17 people to safety and, using a ladder truck, rescued a further 28 residents from the upper floors. The search for people is also continuing in a 21-storey residential building, where the structure has collapsed from the second to the fifth floors. At other locations, fires have been reported on roofs and in lift shafts, along with partial collapse of the roof of a 19-storey building, car fires and debris falling onto the 16th floor of a 25-storey residential block.
In the Darnytskyi district, debris struck a 25-storey residential block at the level of the fourth floor. In another building within the residential complex, a fire broke out in a flat measuring 150 square metres. A fire also broke out in a garage co-operative. At another address, flats on the 23rd, 24th and 25th floors caught fire after debris struck a 30-storey residential block.
In the Holosiivskyi district, a non-residential building caught fire as a result of the attack.
In the Obolon district, efforts to extinguish a fire in some warehouse premises are ongoing.
Rescue workers, State Emergency Service psychologists and other emergency services continue to work at the sites of the Russian strikes. The search and rescue operation is ongoing.
