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Russia attacks Kyiv with ballistic and cruise missiles, explosions heard in Kharkiv

2 September, 2024 Monday
11:10

On September 2, Russian troops launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine. Kyiv was attacked by several waves of missiles. Debris was seen falling in a number of areas

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Ukraine's Air Force reported the information.

Consequences of the attack on Kyiv

According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, the air raid in the capital lasted almost two hours. As a result of the air defense work, debris fell in several parts of the capital: 

As of 10:00 a.m., 4 cars caught fire in Sviatoshynskyi district. The fire has been extinguished. Debris fell into a non-residential building and caught fire. A subway station was also damaged. 

Mayor Klitschko wrote about challenges in Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi districts

Also, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration, debris was recorded falling in the Holosiivskyi district. According to preliminary information, there is damage to non-residential buildings. The data is being clarified.

In Sviatoshynskyi district, the debris also damaged non-residential buildings.

Klitschko later said, "In the Shevchenkivskyi district, preliminary, there was a fall of debris. Doctors are examining one victim.”

According to him, medics were also called to Sviatoshynskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.

At 5:57 a.m. the Kyiv City Military Administration said, “Debris falling in Holosiivskyi district, Sviatoshynskyi, Dniprovskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts. Preliminary, there is a fire.”

Latest updates from Klitschko:

  • Missile fragments fall in the Sviatoshynskyi district. Four cars are on fire. 
  • A non-residential building is on fire in the Holosiivskyi district. 
  • In Sviatoshynskyi district, preliminary debris fell on a warehouse. 
  • The Shevchenkivskyi district is also on fire. 
  • According to the mayor, a boiler house in Holosiivskyi district was partially destroyed. He later added that the glass elements of the entrance to the Sviatoshyn metro station were damaged. A kiosk is on fire near the entrance.

The Kyiv City Military Administration reported that the strike was a combined one, using cruise and ballistic missiles.

"The missiles approached Kyiv after executing complex maneuvers from the southern direction. As the cruise missiles neared the capital, the enemy also launched KN-24/Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Kyiv and its suburbs. Additionally, there was one attack UAV involved in the assault," the statement reads.

The administration said that the air defense forces and means destroyed more than a dozen cruise missiles and about a dozen ballistic missiles and an attack drone in the airspace of the capital.

"As a result of the missile strike, debris fell in the city in the Holosiivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Dniprovskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts. Preliminarily, there is a fire in cars and damage to non-residential premises," the Kyiv City Military Administration summarized.

Kyiv City Military Administration spokesman Mykhailo Shamanov told Espreso that a victim was hospitalized.

"The data on casualties and damage is being updated. As of now, we know about one hospitalized person, but his life is not in danger," he said.

Pavlo Petrov, a spokesman for the Kyiv City State Emergency Service, commented on the situation with the consequences of the attack to Espreso correspondent Kateryna Halko.

"As a result of the Russian attack, we have calls in three districts of the city - Shevchenkivskyi, Holosiivskyi and Sviatoshynskyi. The fires have been extinguished almost everywhere. We are in Holosiivskyi district, where a building of one of the capital's educational institutions was hit by enemy fire. Rescuers have completely extinguished the fire and are dismantling the structures. Rescuers also extinguished a fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district and continue to eliminate the consequences of hostile attack in the Sviatoshynskyi district," Petrov said.

Later, the Kyiv City Military Administration reported that three people were injured in the attack: two were hospitalized and one received medical treatment on the spot.

Kyiv region

According to the Regional Military Administration, there are targets that have been shot down.

"There were no hits to critical or residential infrastructure. There were no civilian casualties," the statement says.

As of 7:30 a.m., the falling debris caused forest litter and dry grass fires in three districts of the region. 

There are reports of damage to 3 private houses and 2 cars.

Missile attack on Kharkiv

At 5:30 a.m., an explosion was heard in the city.

At 6:00 a.m., Mayor Terekhov wrote, "In the Industrialnyi district, a missile (type to be determined) caused a fire in a garden society. There is no information about casualties and injuries so far.”

According to the Regional Military Administration, a private house and 3 non-residential buildings were on fire in the garden association. There were no casualties.

"Around 1:00 a.m., a 66-year-old woman was injured in the Kyivskyi district as a result of an enemy UAV strike, she refused hospitalization. A private house was damaged," wrote the head of the Regional Military Administration, Syniehubov.

Poltava region

At night, the air defense system worked on Russian targets.

"Fortunately, no one was injured. The drone's wreckage damaged the administrative and production buildings of one of the region's industrial enterprises," said Pronin, head of the Regional Military Administration.

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