London-A Russian Air Strike that reached several residential buildings in kyiv killed six people, including a 6-year-old boy, the city’s military administration head said Thursday.
A building in the Sviathynskyi district was a “direct success,” said Tymur Tkachenko in a message on Telegram, adding that it was one of the 27 locations in kyiv who were beaten by Russia during the night.
At least 52 people were injured, he said. Nine children were among the more than 30 people transported to hospitals for their wounds, he said.
Rescuers work at the site of a hitting building hit during the attacks of missile and unmanned missiles and airplanes, in the middle of Russia’s attack against Ukraine, in kyiv, Ukraine, on July 31, 2025.
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“It’s a horrible morning in kyiv,” said Andrii Sybiha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in a position on social networks. “The brutal Russian strikes destroyed whole residential buildings and damaged schools and hospitals. Civilians are injured and killed.”
Women react outside an apartment building destroyed after a Russian missile attack in kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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“There are still people under the rubble,” added Sybiha.
The Russian strike in the middle of the night in the Apartamentos building, where the six people were killed, were equivalent to a “particularly sinister act,” said Ruslan Stefanchuk, a legislator who presides over the Ukrainian Parliament.
“This is not simply a crime, it is one more proof that Russia is deliberating a war against the Ukrainian people,” he said on social networks. “His goals are our homes, our children and our basic right to live freely in our own country.”
