At least 12 people were killed and more than 20 injured, including two children, early Sunday morning as a result of a large-scale attack by the Russian Armed Forces on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and other cities across the country, according to local and state authorities.
“Unfortunately, four people were killed as a result of an enemy attack in the Kyiv region tonight,” regional governor Mikola Kalashnik announced in a statement released through his official Telegram channel.
In the same post, Kalashnik specified that two people “were discovered while extinguishing a fire in the Obukhiv district” and another person died in the Buchanan area. No further information on the fatalities has been released at this time.
Among the injured is a 59-year-old man, who was hit by shrapnel in the Bila Tserkva district, suffering various facial injuries. “All necessary medical assistance is being provided on-site, without the need for hospitalization,” the statement read.
In the same Bila Tserkva district, five other people were injured, including the two minors. Two women were injured in the Fastiv district, and two more people were unharmed in the Buchanan district.
While no fatalities or injuries have been reported elsewhere in the capital, this does not mean that Russian attacks have also reached other areas such as Brovarsky and Obukhivsky.
“State Emergency Service personnel, investigative and operational teams, and medical teams have been deployed to the scene of the emergency,” the governor added, noting that the airstrikes are continuing and that he will provide “more detailed information later.”
For its part, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported the death of a 77-year-old man in the Mykolaiv region, where at least five people were also injured, including a teenager. Among the injured, two women are in serious condition.
In the Khmelnytskyi region, four people died and five others were injured. Six private homes were destroyed, and more than 20 houses, an educational institution, and cars were damaged. Another death was identified in Mykolaiv, where five others were injured.
Shortly after, Ukraine’s Emergency Service reported the deaths of three minors in Yitomir (aged 8, 12, and 17), where another ten were hospitalized.
As a result of the rocket launches in this territory, up to 210 people had to be evacuated from their homes, and several residential buildings were destroyed.
Meanwhile, the head of the Khmelnytsky Regional State Administration, Sergei Tyurin, reported—also via Telegram—that the region has been “targeted by hostile Russian shelling, which has led to the destruction of civilian infrastructure and caused deaths and injuries.”
Specifically, preliminary reports collected by local authorities indicate the deaths of four people and the hospitalization of five others, one of them in serious condition with shrapnel wounds.
Regarding material damage, “six private residential buildings have been destroyed and more than 20 homes have been damaged,” according to Tyurin.
The massive Russian aggression comes after the Russian Defense Forces announced the downing of 95 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in different regions of the country, six of which were heading toward the capital, Moscow, according to Kremlin officials.
This exchange of attacks also occurred on the same day that Ukraine reported a total of 13 deaths from Russian attacks throughout Saturday. Furthermore, kyiv has suffered one of the “most massive combined attacks against the capital,” in the words of Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kiev City Military Administration.
Likewise, this exchange of attacks takes place on the same day that 307 prisoners were exchanged by each side in the second phase of the agreement reached by both parties for the handover of a total of 2,000 people after holding their first direct contacts in Turkey in more than three years.
Last Friday, they already exchanged 390 prisoners—making a total of 697 people from both sides who have been able to return to their homes—and this Sunday they announced that they will proceed with the third exchange.
