Four children were among at least 14 people wounded in a Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv, officials said on Sunday, hours after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed calls for more Patriot missile defense systems.
Two high-rise residential buildings were hit in the strikes, the mayor of Ukraine’s capital, Vitali Klitschko, said according to Reuters, including the second and third floors of a nine-story building in the Desnianskyi district.
“Everyone is receiving medical assistance, some have been hospitalized,” Kyiv’s military administration said on Telegram, without providing further detail, Reuters reported.
Air raid alerts were in place in Kyiv and surrounding districts for around an hour and a half before the air force called them off shortly after midnight on Sunday.
The magnitude of the attack and the extent of its damage was not immediately known. Klitschko did not confirm whether the buildings were directly hit or struck by falling debris from destroyed weapons.
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