KYIV, Ukraine (AP) 鈥� Russia launched on Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones overnight into Thursday with the intense strikes causing loud explosions and shaking Kyiv for hours.
Residential buildings were damaged in the attacks that killed one person and injured numerous people, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 11 people were injured.
The attack with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones affected all of the city鈥檚 10 districts, on both sides of the Dnipro River. Many residents took shelter at metro stations after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other authorities issued the first warnings of the attack.
Russia has in recent weeks, even as Ukraine鈥檚 own long-range drone campaign against Russian military sites and energy facilities has inside Russia.
Klitschko urged residents to remain in shelters, describing an ongoing 鈥渇urious enemy attack鈥� on the capital.
He said five people were injured in the Shevchenkivskyi district and one of the injured, a paramedic, was in extremely critical condition.
In the Desnianskyi district, people were trapped inside a damaged nine-story residential building and rescuers headed to the scene, Klitschko said. In the Holosiivskyi district, a fire broke out on the roof of a multistory building.
In the Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts, fire broke out in homes and debris trapped people in buildings.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said the attack partially destroyed a residential building in the Desnianskyi district, sparked fires near residential buildings at two locations in the Pecherskyi district, and ignited a fire near an administrative building in the Solomianskyi district. He said authorities were also recording damage in the Obolonskyi and Podilskyi districts.
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