LONDON — A minimum of 9 individuals had been killed and dozens extra had been injured in an in a single day Russian assault on a number of districts and residential areas in Kyiv, Ukrainian officers mentioned on Thursday.
Russian assault drones and ballistic missiles focused the capital, based on the Kyiv Metropolis Army Administration.
“In a single day, Russia held an enormous assault on Ukraine,” the Ministry of Protection mentioned. “Cruise missiles, drones, ballistic weapons — one more strike on peaceable cities and Ukrainian houses.”
Broken automobiles lie in a yard with different particles after a Russian ballistic missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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A minimum of 70 individuals had been injured, together with 42 who had been hospitalized, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service mentioned in a submit on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukrainian searchers clear the rubble after a Russian ballistic missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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Six kids had been among the many injured, the service mentioned.
Rescue operations had been persevering with early on Thursday within the capital, the place first responders had been digging via the rubble of residential buildings for survivors, protection officers mentioned.
Ukrainian rescuers carry the physique of a sufferer as they function on the website of a Russian missile assault in Kyiv on April 24, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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“These assaults are one more affirmation — Russia just isn’t in search of peace. It continues to kill Ukrainians,” the ministry mentioned on social media.
Exterior of Kyiv, Russia additionally focused the Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia areas in a single day into Thursday, the ministry mentioned.
