Kyiv Attacked Again By Ukrainian Missiles And Drones, Triggers Fires To Damage Metro Station Doors

JAKARTA - Russian missile and drone attacks around Kyiv killed one person. The attack also sparked fires in settlements, and damaged entrances to a metro station that served as a bomb threat shelter.

"Russian style has not changed - attacking places where there may be people," said Kyiv's Chief Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, as reported by Reuters on Monday, June 23.

Both sides have denied targeting civilians in the war Russia launched in February 2022. But thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, most of them Ukrainians.

A 68-year-old woman was killed and two injured in an attack on the wider Kyiv region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, Mykola Kalashnik said on Telegram.

In the capital itself, five people were reported injured.

Photographs posted by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service show rescue teams taking people to safety from several burning buildings and buildings in the dark.

The service said a pregnant woman was among those rescued.

The attack on the evening of Sunday, June 22 caused damage to three of the city's 10 districts, including in several apartment buildings.

The exit to the metro station in the Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv was also damaged, as was the bus stop next to it.

In-Kyiv metro stations have been used throughout the war as some of the city's safest bomb protection sites.

Russia's deadliest attack on Kyiv last week with hundreds of unmanned aircraft killed 28 people and injured more than 150 people.

Ukrainian officials said nearly 30 locations were hit by attacks during some of those waves.