Russia launched a massive aerial assault on Ukraine's capital and its surroundings overnight into Tuesday morning, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than a dozen others, including three children. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Ukraine's air force said Russia began the attack at 6 p.m. Monday, using ballistic, cruise and anti-radar missiles, as well as 218 drones and decoys. About a third of the drones were reportedly jet-powered.
According to a statement on Telegram, the main targets were the Kyiv and Odesa regions. The overnight strikes marked the sixth consecutive day of Russian attacks on Kyiv.
The latest attack struck civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in several districts of Kyiv, with eight people killed in the city itself and three others in the surrounding region.
Russian strikes killed seven people in the Darnytskyi district of the capital, authorities said. One person was seriously wounded and hospitalized. At another site in the district, an explosion wounded two people, including a child.
An eighth person was killed in the Holosiivskyi district, when a nonresidential building was hit and caught fire, the emergency service said. In the Solomianskyi district, a drone strike hit a residential building, causing damage. Emergency workers rescued a man and freed a woman trapped beneath the rubble.
The other three people who died were in areas of the Kyiv region outside the city, and 12 were wounded. In Boryspil, three cars caught fire. Emergency crews evacuated 48 people and rescued two from under the rubble. Eight people were injured, including two children. Also in Boryspil, a truck caught fire at an infrastructure facility, damaging the building. Two people were killed and three others injured. A service station in Boryspil was also damaged, killing one person.
The Odesa region came under a major Russian attack overnight, damaging civilian infrastructure and wounding one person, regional head Oleh Kiper said. Two residential buildings were damaged.