At least six people were killed and 19 injured in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike hit residential areas overnight, city officials said Monday.
The attack caused extensive damage to a five-story residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said. Rescuers pulled 10 people from the rubble, including a child and a pregnant woman.
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“The picture in the Shevchenkivskyi district is terrible,” Klitschko said in a statement. Emergency workers, medics, and city utilities are on site, he added.
The blast wave also damaged a 25-story residential building across the street, officials said.
In total, eight of the 19 people injured were hospitalized.
The missile strike also damaged homes and non-residential buildings in other parts of the city, including the Solomianskyi, Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi, and Holosiivskyi districts, according to local authorities.
UPDATED: June 23, 2025, 6:42 a.m. Kyiv time
Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Monday morning that two people were hospitalized in the Solomianski district of the capital as a result of overnight Russian air strikes.
Another two civilians were injured near a metro station in the Sviatochinski district, Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, later said.
The latest strikes came after Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky vowed to intensify strikes on Russia.
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“We will not just sit in defense. Because this brings nothing and eventually leads to the fact that we still retreat, lose people and territories,” he told reporters on Sunday.
UPDATED: June 23, 2025, 5:02 a.m. Kyiv time
Social media posts are reporting that part of the Igor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) has been destroyed by fires resulting from this morning’s Russian air strikes.
The Institute, founded in 1898 and carrying a recent history of anti-Russian sentiment and the matriculation of military pioneers, created a charity fund in 2023 to purchase military equipment at the request of students and graduates who joined the Armed Forces.
The campus, also since 2003, has also been the site of a 600-square-meter innovative bomb shelter, created in the basement of the central library.
The air raid “all clear” has just been given, the post said at about 4:50 a.m. Kyiv time.
Part of the Igor Sikorskyi Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) is destroyed by fire.
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Kyiv has been subjected to another huge missile and drone attack this morning.
The air raid all clear has just been given https://t.co/eVIgRszIV1
UPDATED: June 23, 2025, 3:45 a.m. Kyiv time
Kyiv Post journalists started hearing loud ordnance explosions in the capital in the early morning hours of Monday, as reports came in of yet another Russian aerial attack.
“In the Bila Tserkva district, three private houses caught fire due to falling debris from downed enemy targets, reported a post on Telegram from a blogger known as “Kyiv Operative.” “Another private house and a hotel building were damaged.
“Also, three private houses and two cars were damaged in the Buchansky district.”
Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration was reported as saying on Telegram: “In the Holosiivsky district [of the capital] two cars and a business center were damaged… Information about the victims is being established.”
“Another massive attack on the capital. Possibly, several waves of enemy drones,” said another statement from Tkachenko. “Stay in shelters while the danger persists!”
AFP journalists in Kyiv also heard the buzzing of a drone flying over the city center and explosions, possibly from air-defense units, as well as gunfire, likely mobile air-defense groups trying to down the drone.
In one bomb shelter in the basement of a residential building in central Kyiv, about 10 people were waiting for the attack to end.
Seated on chairs or benches, most of them were scrolling their phones for news, but one woman and her child slept in folding beds installed in the shelter.
Editor’s Note: This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.
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