Number of people killed in Russian missile attack on Kyiv rises to 20
Pravda Ukraine
A Russian missile strike in Kyiv has claimed 20 lives and left more than 60 people wounded.
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Quote: “20 people were killed and 61 others injured in Kyiv. In particular, two people were killed and 10 others were injured on the territory of the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital. Four people were rescued, including 3 children.”
Details: In total, 31 people were killed and 125 others were injured in Ukraine as a result of the Russian attack.
Background:
- On the morning of 8 July, Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russia had scrambled Tu-95 bombers from the Olenya airfield.
- Later, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that the Russians had launched missiles and guided aerial bombs on Ukraine, causing an air-raid warning to be issued across the country. Explosions rocked Kyiv and a number of other cities.
- Debris fell in Solomianskyi, Dniprovskyi, Darnytskyi, Desnianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi and Holosiivskyi districts of Kyiv as a result of a missile strike.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that as a result of Russia’s missile strike on Ukraine on 8 July, 27 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
- Earlier in the day, the mayor of Kyiv wrote that the number of casualties in different districts of the capital had increased to 66 people, 44 of whom were taken to city hospitals. Others were treated on the spot. He said that two adults were killed in a Russian missile attack on the morning of 8 July on the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, and 16 people were injured, including seven children.
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