LONDON — A Russian aerial strike that hit a number of residential buildings in Kyiv killed six individuals, together with a 6-year-old boy, the pinnacle of the town’s navy administration stated Thursday.
A constructing within the Sviatoshynskyi district was a “direct hit,” Tymur Tkachenko stated in a message on Telegram, including that it was one in every of 27 areas in Kyiv that had been struck by Russia in a single day.
Not less than 52 individuals had been injured, he stated. 9 youngsters had been among the many greater than 30 individuals transported to hospitals for his or her accidents, he stated.
Rescuers work on the website of an house constructing hit throughout Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2025.
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“It is a horrible morning in Kyiv,” Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s minister of overseas affairs, stated in a social media submit. “The brutal Russian strikes destroyed complete residential buildings and broken faculties and hospitals. Civilians are injured and killed.”
Ladies react outdoors a destroyed house constructing after a Russian missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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“There are nonetheless individuals beneath the rubble,” Sybiha added.
The Russian strike in the midst of the evening on the house constructing, the place the six individuals had been killed, amounted to a “significantly sinister act,” stated Ruslan Stefanchuk, a lawmaker who chairs the Ukrainian parliament.
“This isn’t merely against the law — it’s additional proof that Russia is intentionally waging battle in opposition to the Ukrainian individuals,” he stated on social media. “Its targets are our properties, our youngsters, and our primary proper to stay freely in our personal nation.”
