Airstrike in Kiev Leaves One Dead and Four Injured as Explosions Continue: Authorities

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An airstrike on Kiev during the night killed one person and injured at least four others as explosions erupted for the third night in a row that the Ukrainian capital came under shelling, authorities said Thursday.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that emergency services responded to calls from Solomensky, Shevchenkovsky, Podolsky and Darnitsky districts after “explosions in the capital.”

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“In the Podolsky district, during the work of firefighters to extinguish a fire in a residential building, the body of one person was found,” he added in Telegram.

The head of the military administration in Kyiv, Serhiy Popko, also said on Telegram that two people were injured in the Darnytsia region “as a result of falling debris.”

Klitschko indicated that two more people were being treated at the site of the explosion in the Shevchenkovsky district.

The fire broke out in a residential building

He said that the fires broke out in a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district and another non-residential building in the Podolsky district, adding that emergency services were present at two sites.

The photo, posted on the official Telegram account of the military administration in Kyiv, shows a room in a high-rise building with a destroyed part of the wall in the Darnitsky district.

And the Ukrainian Air Force warned in a statement that the threat of Russian drone bombing of cities still exists.


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