Massive attack on Kyiv: High-rise buildings and dormitory hit, homes and cars ablaze

Buildings were damaged in several districts of the capital, with fires breaking out in high-rise and private residential buildings. Falling debris set cars ablaze, including near a service station in the Holosiivskyi district, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

After 11.00, a drone struck a five-storey residential building in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district, destroying the fourth and fifth floors. No fire was reported, and emergency crews were evacuating residents.

Debris also hit a 24-storey building in the Darnytskyi district, causing a fire on the top floor, Kyiv mayor said. The 24th floor and a technical level were destroyed, with no casualties reported so far.

Klitschko added that a fire also broke out on the upper floors of a neighbouring building following another drone strike.

Several private houses caught fire in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district following the Russian attack. Klitschko said there was a risk the blaze could spread to a nearby care home for elderly people. Ten people were evacuated from the facility.

In the same district, falling debris damaged a tram depot and set private vehicles ablaze.

In the Dniprovskyi district, debris damaged three high-rise buildings. A fire broke out in an 18-storey residential building, where search and rescue operations are ongoing as a person may be trapped under the rubble.

“In the Dniprovskyi district, where a drone hit an 18-storey building, a fire broke out on the third floor and a person may be trapped under the debris on the fifth floor,” Klitschko said.

Debris also struck a 25-storey residential building, causing fires on the first and second floors. The roof of a 19-storey building was also damaged.

In the Obolonskyi district, debris fell onto the grounds of a dacha cooperative as well as open areas, where cars caught fire.

Meanwhile, Head of the Kyiv City Military Administration Tymur Tkachenko, said the consequences of the attack had been recorded at locations across seven districts of the capital. In addition to residential buildings, cars were on fire, a garage cooperative was damaged and windows were blown out.

In Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, Russian forces struck a university dormitory at the level of the ninth floor. After a drone fell onto open ground in a ravine nearby, the blast wave shattered windows in a neighbouring high-rise apartment building.

In the Desnianskyi district, a nine-storey residential building was damaged.