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If you’re just joining us: Russia launched a fresh “massive” wave of attacks on Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday and air defence systems were engaging incoming targets, city officials said, as air raid sirens blared in several other regions.
“A massive attack!” Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app. “Do not leave shelters.”
Kyiv’s military administration officials said that air defence systems were repelling the attacks. Falling debris hit several districts of the capital, including the historic Podil and Pecherskyi neighbourhoods.
Klitschko said that a 27-year-old woman was taken to hospital after sustaining injuries in southwestern Holosiivskyi district.
A multi-storey residential building and a house were on fire as a result of falling debris, authorities said.
Russia has repeatedly attacked the Ukrainian capital in May using a combination of drones and missiles, mostly at night in order to inflict psychological distress on people, Kyiv’s official said.
The Tuesday strikes were Russia’s 17th air assault on the capital this month and came after the city was attacked twice on Monday, including a rare daytime strike.
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One dead in apartment building fire
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says that a person has died in the fire in a residential building in Holosiivskyi district, which was caused by falling debris from a drone.
“In the Holosiivskyi district, where a fire broke out in a high-rise building as a result of falling debris, rescuers have currently evacuated 20 people from the building. One person died. One elderly woman is hospitalised by doctors. Two victims were treated on the spot,” Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
If you’re just joining us: at least one person was injured on Monday night in a “massive attack” by Russian drones on the Ukrainian capital, the city’s mayor said.
A 27-year-old woman was hospitalised with “moderate” injuries caused by falling debris in a southern area of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
“Massive attack! Stay indoors!” the mayor said, adding that a multi-storey building was also damaged in the Holosiivskyi district.
The city’s military administration said the nighttime attack was carried out using drones.
Falling debris caused a fire at a house in the city’s southern Darnytskyi district, and three cars in the centrally located Pechersky district were also up in flames, the administration said.
Air raid sirens rang out overnight in Kyiv and in the central Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Mykolayiv regions as well as the southern Kherson region.
Russian forces fired a barrage of missiles at Kyiv earlier on Monday, sending panicked residents running for shelter in an unusual daytime attack on the Ukrainian capital following overnight strikes.
Debris has also fallen in Kyiv's Dnipro district, but not in a residential area, the Kyiv City Military Administration said.
An update on the explosion in Sviatoshyn district – the Kyiv City Military Administration says debris fell in the district and that emergency services are on site
“Data on destruction and casualties are being clarified,” the administration said on Telegram.
Here are photos from this morning’s attack, which is ongoing:
There has been another explosion, this time in Sviatoshyn district of Kyiv, the city’s mayor says.
“Explosion in Sviatoshyn district. All services go to the place,” Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
Euromaidan reports that more explosions have been heard in Kyiv.
Here is a photo of the fire in Holosiyvskyi – the photo was published by the Kyiv City Military Administration and shared on Twitter by Isobel Koshiw, a reporter formerly of this parish:
Residents have been evacuated from the multi-storey residential building in Holosiivskyi district, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says.
“Residents are being evacuated in Holosiivskyi district, where there is a fire in a high-rise building. One person was injured,” Klitschko said.
Correspondents for the Globe and Mail and The Economist are awake in Kyiv, and trying to maintain a sense of humour through the strikes.
The Globe and Mail’s Mark MacKinnon says that locals have started referring to the nightly strikes as a “disco” – and The Economist’s Oliver Carroll says the next morning feels like exhaustion after a big night out:
More drones are headed for the capital, according to Euromaidan, which cites “monitoring channels”:
Monitoring channels say three more Shaheds are still in the air.
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) May 30, 2023
