Three people were killed and 29 injured, including six children, in a Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv that destroyed two high-rise apartment buildings, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday, APA reports citing Reuters.
Seven of the injured, including two children, were taken to the city's hospitals, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app.
Debris from destroyed Russian air weapons fell onto a nine-storey apartment building in Kyiv's leafy Desnianskyi district, sparking a fire that quickly engulfed several stories, the mayor added.
The fire has since been extinguished.
Ukraine's state emergency service said that 13 people were rescued from the building's upper floors.
The full scale of the attack was not immediately known. Kyiv and its surrounding region were under air-raid alerts for about 1-1/2 hours before the air force called them off at around 0030 GMT.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strikes on each other's territory. But thousands, mostly Ukrainians, have been killed in the war that Russia started with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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On the night of October 26, the Russian army carried out a massive drone attack on Kyiv, APA reports, citing the RBK Ukraine.
The attack resulted in a fire in the capital, injuring a total of 26 people, including six children.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, a group of Shahed suicide drones flew towards Kiev at around 02:23. A few minutes later, an air alert was declared in the city.
The blasts mainly hit the Desnyansky and Obolonsky districts. Rescuers and medical teams were called to the scene.
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