The Russians hit Kyiv with ballistic missiles: all the details

On the night of Thursday, June 1, the invaders attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles. All detected air targets were shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces, but three people were killed as a result of falling debris. There is destruction in three districts of the capital.

The Kyiv City Military Administration informs about this.

Desnianskyi District:

Three people have died. Two of them were children aged about 5-6 and about 12-13 years old. Seven more residents were hospitalized, while two received assistance at the scene.

In one of the residential buildings, windows and doors were blown out, and the balcony was destroyed by the blast wave.

Debris fell on a children's clinic, damaging two schools, a kindergarten, and a police station.

Dniprovskyi District:

Three injured individuals. Two of them were hospitalized. As a result of the fall of the flaming debris, heavy smoke arose in the residential building, and the windows were blown out by the blast wave. Debris fell on an administrative building, damaging parked cars, some of which caught fire. Falling debris was found in the yards of houses, on the roadway, and in green areas.

Darnytskyi district:

Debris fell in the yards of houses and on the road. In one of the residential buildings, the blast wave blew out the windows. The hot water pipeline was damaged, the destruction was recorded on the first floor of a non-residential building. Information about casualties is currently unavailable.

The authorities have clarified the information about the victims. The Kyiv City Military Administration in Telegram at 07:15 stated that, as a result of enemy missile shelling on the night of June 1st, among the three deceased, there was one child, not two, as previously reported. The child was born in 2012. The number of injured is 10 people, including a child. All the deceased were residents of the Desnianskyi District of the capital.

What missiles did Russia attacked Kyiv?

According to the General Staff, the Russian occupiers launched 10 ‘Iskander’ missiles at Kyiv and the region. All of them were shot down by air defense forces. The targets were civilian and critical infrastructure in the Kyiv region.

The Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine specified that the attack occurred around 02:45. The air defense forces successfully intercepted ten missiles, seven of which were ‘Iskander-M’ and three were ‘Iskander-K’ launched from the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation.

"Once again, the enemy cunningly attacks with ground-based ballistic and cruise missiles from the ‘Iskander’ missile system. There is not much time to take shelter. In total, 10 ballistic and cruise missiles of the ‘Iskander’ type were launched from the northern direction, Bryansk region of the Russian Federation," the statement reads.

What eyewitnesses and victims say

Three people, including a child, died as a result of falling debris in the Desnyanskyi district. Yaroslav, the husband of the woman who died as a result of the attack on Kyiv, said that after the alarm was announced, the wife and the child ran to the shelter, but it was closed. There were also people with them - these are women and children. People asked for the shelter to be opened - and at that moment the debris fell right on them.

"There was alarm, people ran to the shelter. The shelter was simply not opened and that's all. People were knocking, for a very long time. There were women, children. Nobody opened it. Just at the moment when they were knocking, there was a hit," the man recalled.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reacted and mentioned that experts from the Municipal Security Department were dispatched to the clinic to investigate why there was no access to the shelter in the clinic.

"The responsibility for the operation of the shelter lies with the head of the medical institution and the district head, who should control the operation of the shelters indicated on the city map and ensure their functionality," said the city mayor.

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