10 People Died As A Result Of Russian Drone-Rudal Attacks On Kyiv And Around

Illustration of the Russian army preparing to launch drones. (Wikimedia Commons/Mil.ru)

JAKARTA - Sernagan wave of Russian drones and missiles against the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and surrounding areas killed 10 people, including a child, lit up the night sky with fire in residential areas and damaged entrances to the metro station bomb shelter, officials said on Monday.

Rescue workers removed bodies from the rubble of an apartment block in Kyiv's busy Shevchenkivskyi district, less than one kilometer from the United States Embassy. At least nine people died in the district, the Interior Ministry said.

Valeriy Mankuta, 33, described himself climbing from his window to the third floor below to escape after his building was hit by what authorities thought was a missile. Reuters photos showed several explosions above the apartment building in the area.

"There's a brick above me, there's something in my mouth. It's really hell. I woke up in the rubble," said Mankuta, a construction worker.

At least 34 people including four children were injured in the attack on Kyiv, emergency services said.

From midnight to nearly dawn, the city shook with explosions and machine gun fire from anti-aircraft units aimed at drones.

Firefighters are struggling to extinguish the fire in the swimming pool of the National Engineering University, also known as the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, as shown by Reuters photos. The large campus has a department that handles aerospace technology. Several academic buildings and four dormitories were also affected, the polytechnic said.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said people may still be under the rubble of the building after the attack last night caused damage to six of the city's 10 districts.

Meanwhile, the entrance to the metro station in Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv was also damaged, officials said.

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

In the wider area of Kyiv surrounding the Ukrainian capital, a 68-year-old woman was killed and at least eight injured, officials said.

Separately, the Ukrainian air force said it had brought down 339 of the 352 unmanned aircraft and 15 of the 16 missiles launched by Russia in attacks on four Ukrainian territories.

In the area around the port of the southern Black Sea Odesa, regional governor By goalkeeper said the number of people killed in separate missile attacks had risen to three. Eight people were treated for injuries.

Moscow is known to have stepped up drone and missile attacks in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, as talks to end the war, which began with a full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, have made little progress.

Monday's attack came a day before NATO's annual summit was held in The Hague, while President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Britain to discuss defense.

Thousands of civilians were killed in the conflict, most of them Ukrainians, although both sides have denied targeting them.

Russia has not yet commented on the latest attack.

Last week, Russia launched one of the deadliest attacks on Kyiv, when hundreds of drones killed 28 people and injured more than 150 people.