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Russian missile barrage kills at least 6 in Kyiv
AP News • • general
Key Points:
- A Russian missile barrage overnight Thursday killed at least 12 people and wounded 33 in Kyiv, with explosions heard across the city throughout the night, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service.
- The strikes targeted 12 locations across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential buildings, a medical facility, and an educational institution, with emergency crews rescuing people from rubble.
- In Solomianskyi district, a 9-story residential building’s top two floors were destroyed, fires broke out on other floors, and residents were trapped in two buildings and a school shelter.
- The attacks reflect Russia’s intensified ballistic missile campaign aimed at depleting Kyiv’s limited air defense capabilities, particularly its constrained supplies of missiles for U.S.-made Patriot systems.
- Although former U.S. President Donald Trump initially authorized Ukraine to produce Patriot air-defense systems, he later reversed the decision, affecting Ukraine’s missile defense resources.
