Russia launches missile strike on Kyiv, hitting infrastructure facility, damaging 18 private houses in region

Espreso TV reported the information. 

A series of explosions in Kyiv occurred around 9:35 a.m. Immediately after, an air alarm alert was declared in the capital and the region. 

Ukrainian State Emergency Service reported on Telegram that there was fire in a 20-square-meter metal warehouse building in Holosiivskyi district as a result of a missile fragment falling on the territory of one of the enterprises, windows in the adjacent 2-story building were shattered. 

In Dniprovskyi district, as a result of a missile fragment falling on an open area near the building of one of the district's enterprises, 25 square meters of wall were ruined, windows were broken and communications were damaged as well.

"There was no fire at the site, 9 personnel and 2 pieces of equipment were involved. There is no information about victims and injured as a result of these events," the message says.

Earlier the Kyiv City Military Administration reported that Kyiv suffered a missile attack. An infrastructure object was hit. All emergency services are already working on the site.

According to the mayor of the capital Vitali Klitschko, the explosions occurred in the Dniprovskyi district. "All services are heading to the site," Klitschko wrote. 

Later he added that in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital, missile fragments fell on a non-residential area. There were no casualties.

Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of Kyrylo Tymoshenko noted that Russian forces launched a missile attack on critical infrastructure facilities. 

Later, he added that in the village of Kopyliv, Kyiv region, during the morning attack a residential building was hit. Windows of the houses of local residents were shattered. There is no preliminary information about the victims. Emergency services are working at the scene.

The head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksiy Kuleba noted that 18 private houses in the region were damaged as a result of the morning attack. Roofs and windows were damaged. Emergency services are working at the scene. Preliminary, there are no casualties. The fire is localized at the critical infrastructure facility.

Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko said that the fragments of the downed missile fell on the territory of the Pyrohiv open-air museum in Kyiv’s suburb. No one was injured.

Shelling of other Ukrainian regions

Mykolaiv region:

In the morning, Russian forces attacked Mykolaiv region: houses were damaged, a fire broke out at an infrastructure facility.

Kharkiv region:

In the morning, Russian troops launched 2 missile attacks on the Industrial district.

In the Kupiansk district, 2 women were killed and 2 more people were injured as a result of shelling of residential buildings.

Donetsk region:

During the day, Russian troops killed a resident of Bakhmut, 3 more people were injured in Kurakhove and Kostiantynivka.

Dnipropetrovsk region:

Russian forces shelled Nikopol district twice with heavy artillery during the night.

Zaporizhzhia region:

In the morning, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia. There are no reports on casualties yet.

The information is being updated.