Night shelling of Kyiv: the number of victims of a ballistic strike by the Russian Armed Forces has increased (photo)

Share: On the night of October 25, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles. A series of powerful explosions rumbled in the capital, and the city authorities reported new victims and victims. The mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko shared the latest data about the consequences of the Russian ballistic missile attack. According to the updated information as of 11:20 a. m. , there are two dead and 12 injured, three of whom are in hospitals.

According to him, residential buildings and non-residential structures were damaged in the districts of the left bank of Kyiv — Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi and Desnyanskyi. "In Darnytskyi district, there were fires in non-residential buildings at two locations. In Dniprovskyi, as a result of debris falling near residential buildings at several addresses, windows and doors in apartments were broken. Also, the premises of a kindergarten were damaged - windows and doors were broken," Klitschko writes.

In the Desnyan district of the capital, the mayor added, several cars caught fire due to falling fragments of aerial weapons, and a fire broke out in warehouses. The consequences of the Russian strike are being eliminated by emergency services. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi commented on another shelling of the Russian Federation.

On his page, the head of state wrote that since the beginning of this year, Russian troops have fired about 770 ballistic missiles and more than 50 Dagger aeroballistic missiles over Ukraine. "It is precisely because of such attacks that we pay special attention to Patriot systems in order to be able to protect our cities from this horror," Zelenskyy writes.

The Ukrainian leader also noted that the West is capable of providing such assistance so that such attacks no longer threaten the lives of Ukrainian citizens. "Russian ballistics requires a response from strong states in real cooperation to protect life," the president emphasized. Earlier, the Kyiv City Military Administration informed about ten injured and one dead. Emergency services continue to work on the ground, eliminating the consequences of shelling and fire.