The death toll from Russia's massive air attack on Kyiv on July 6 has risen to 12, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, APA reports.
According to the mayor, 50 people were injured in the attack.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing, and therefore the death toll may still rise.
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10:06
The death toll from the Russian Armed Forces' airstrikes on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, has risen to 11, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, APA reports.
According to the mayor, 46 people have been injured.
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09:19
Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv early on Monday, killing at least nine people and heavily damaging apartment blocks and other buildings, officials said, Reuters reports.
Rescue crews were pulling residents from buildings shattered by the overnight barrage, said Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city's military administration, said the death toll in the capital rose to nine, with 46 people wounded throughout the city.
"Unfortunately, this is not the final information," he said, as rescue operations continued.
At least 15 residential buildings had been damaged or destroyed in the attack, including a nine-storey block in the historic Podilskyi district, emergency services said.
Rescuers used a ladder truck to get to people trapped on the upper floors of that building, which had been largely destroyed from the fifth level, they said.
Rescuers were also looking for residents in a 21-storey residential block in the district. Tkachenko said four residential buildings had been struck in the Podilskyi district alone.
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05:16
At least three people have been killed and nearly 10 others injured as a result of a massive Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, said on his Telegram channel, UNIAN reports.
According to him, more than 10 multi-storey residential buildings in various districts of the capital have been damaged.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that destruction had been recorded in the Podil and Holosiiv districts following the attack.
According to him, a residential building in the Podil district was partially destroyed, and there were casualties. In addition, debris fell on the territory of a garage cooperative located in the same district.
According to Timur Tkachenko's latest statement, the 16th floor of a 25-storey residential building in the Podil district was also damaged.
Emergency medical teams and other operational services have been dispatched to the scene.
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