In Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, a Russian drone struck a high-rise building. Fires broke out on several floors. A 44-year-old woman was killed. According to the city prosecutor’s office, seven residents were injured, most of them suffering an acute stress reaction. They are aged between 37 and 83, police said.
The city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote about the strike.
“In the Solomianskyi district, as a result of a UAV strike, a fire broke out from the 3rd to the 6th floors of a nine-storey residential building,” his statement said.
Initial reports spoke of one injured person; later, the military administration reported two injured and one woman killed. After 10:00, Klitschko said the number of people injured had risen to six, and later to seven. The prosecutor’s office later said the drone hit the building at around 8am.
The attack caused partial destruction on the 5th floor. Emergency services are at the scene. The injured were treated on site.