4 killed in Kyiv in new Russian aerial assault

Not less than 4 folks have been killed in an in a single day Russian missile and drone assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the inside minister says.

In a submit on social media, Ihor Klymenko says residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructure have been hit.

“A whole part of a residential high-rise constructing was destroyed” within the worst-hit Shevchenkivskyi district, he says, including that some individuals are trapped beneath the rubble.

Within the Kyiv area, a lady was killed and one other two folks injured within the Russian aerial assault, regional head Mykola Kalashnyk says.

The Russian army has not commented on the problem.

Ukraine’s emergencies service DSNS says 13 folks – together with two kids and a pregnant lady – have been injured in Kyiv.

It has posted footage exhibiting shocked residents being led away from a destroyed high-rise constructing which was nonetheless burning.

A lot of blazes are reported throughout the capital.

An entrance to one of many metropolis’s underground metro stations was broken within the Russian assault, native officers say.

Many residents of Kyiv spent the evening sheltering in such stations.

In latest weeks, Russia has been finishing up large aerial assaults on Kyiv and different Ukrainian cities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.