Russian Missiles Kill at Least 13 in Kyiv as Air Defenses Dwindle
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Moscow is taking advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stock of interceptors and is intensifying attacks, worsening the civilian death toll.
Listen · 3:46 min Share full article Evacuating a resident from a damaged apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. Credit... Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters By Constant Méheut
Explosions erupted across Kyiv shortly before midnight as a first salvo of ballistic missiles rained down. Their thunder reverberated all the way underground to a subway station where some of the city’s three million residents had taken shelter, pitching tents and laying sleeping mats on the granite platform.
Within minutes, Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv’s mayor, wrote on social media that buildings in several districts had been damaged and that emergency crews were rushing to the scene. “More missiles are still heading toward the capital,” he said.
In a statement on social media, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine described the assault as “a massive attack” that Russia “had been preparing for a long time, combining different types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones, aiming to cause as much damage as possible to civilian infrastructure.”
Ukrainian officials said the attack had struck food warehouses and Red Cross facilities, though they did not specify the extent of the damage. A children’s hospital, a school and residential buildings were also damaged, the officials added. Ukraine’s emergency service released pictures that it said were from the aftermath of the attack showing gutted buildings with blown out windows.
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