One killed after Russian missile attack starts several fires in Kyiv
Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said a nine-year-old child is among three people
who were injured as a result of the airstrikes.
Wednesday 12 February 2025 05:37, UK
At least one person has died after a Russian missile attack on Kyiv sparked
several fires throughout the city, Ukrainian officials said.
Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said a nine-year-old child is among three people
who were injured as a result of the airstrikes.
He added that emergency services were called to at least four districts of the
Ukrainian capital.
Kyiv’s military administration has said fires broke out at several residential
and non-residential buildings due to the strikes.
The person who died was killed in the Obolonsky district of the city, the State
Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine said on Telegram.
The SES added that another person was injured in the district and two office
buildings were destroyed – with one of them catching fire.
There was also a fire on the roof of a multi-storey building in Sviatoshynskyi
due to the Russian attack, the SES said.
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The Holosiivskyi district was also targeted – where a fire broke out in a
two-storey warehouse building due to strikes.
The SES said more than 80 rescuers are working at the scene.
Air raid alerts sounded out at the start of the Russian attack at around 4:30am
Ukraine time (2:30am UK time).
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It was not immediately clear what missiles were used, but the late launch of air
raid alerts suggests they were difficult to detect by radar.
“Russia carried out a missile strike on Kyiv and the Kyiv region,” Andriy
Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of
staff, said.
“This is how (Russian President Vladimir Putin) wants the war to end.”
Prospects for renewed peace negotiations to end the war that Russia launched on
Ukraine nearly three years ago have increased after US President Donald Trump
said that he had been in contact with Kyiv and the Russian president.
Mr Zelenskyy also said on Tuesday that Kyiv will soon hold talks with US
officials.
