Russian forces launched a major combined missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight into Thursday, Aug. 20, killing at least 16 people and injuring 39 as strikes damaged residential buildings, a children’s hospital, a school, and other civilian infrastructure across the Ukrainian capital.
In a separate evening attack on Kyiv, Thursday, one person was killed and two others were injured after drone debris struck an office building in the Holosiivskyi district, the he State Emergency Service (SES) reported.
Less than an hour later, around 8:00 p.m. local time, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported another fire in the Holosiivskyi district after drone debris fell in a nonresidential area.
One person was injured at the site, bringing the number of injured people to 42. Medical assistance was provided to the victim.
According to Klitschko’s latest update, one more person was killed. The evening attack brough the overall number of people killed to at least 17.
Emergency crews continued working at a strike site in the Solomianskyi district as well, where a nine-story residential building and nearby homes were damaged.
The toll could rise further, as emergency services remained working at the affected sites, assessing the full scale of damage.
Hot water disruptions
Residents of the Desnianskyi district and parts of the Dniprovskyi district could face disruptions to hot-water supplies following the attack, Klitschko said.
Separately, Klitschko said on Thursday that Russian attacks have damaged around 4,000 of Kyiv’s 12,000 buildings, or roughly one in three.
The capital continues to equip shelters and seek for funding to prepare for the upcoming winter season, with plans to install mobile shelters in the city’s most critical locations by the end of the year.