Destroyed apartments, burned cars, broken windows: Aftermath of Russian attack on Kyiv and oblast – photo

Photo: The State Emergency Service in Kyiv

The morning Russian missile attack on Ukraine caused trouble in five districts of the capital and the surrounding oblast: Apartments and cars were damaged in Kyiv, 22 people were injured, and one of them is in intensive care.

Source: Main Directorate of the Kyiv State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Facebook; Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; Kyiv City Military Administration; State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the National Police on Telegram

Details: In Sviatoshynskyi District of the capital (10 locations):

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• Two cars caught on fire near a five-storey residential building; a balcony on the fifth storey was destroyed; rescue workers evacuated 19 people.
• There was a fire in three apartments on a total area of 30 square metres with the destruction of balconies from the first to the fifth storeys; an injured woman was found on the spot and handed over to doctors. The woman is clinically dead; doctors are fighting for her life. Rescue workers brought 30 people out into the fresh air.

• At another address, a fire broke out in a two-storey building on an area of 80 square metres.
• Ten garages were damaged, with the fires spreading further.
• The blast waves damaged several cars and smashed windows in apartments.
• An unexploded missile warhead was found in one of the houses – the residents of the house were evacuated.   

In general, in the Sviatoshynskyi District, the population was evacuated from two residential buildings to two promptly established places of temporary stay in a secondary school and in a preschool.

In Solomianskyi district (3 locations):

• 300 square metres of a two-storey sports hall building was partially destroyed without fire breaking out, and seven people were hospitalised.

In Shevchenkivskyi District (1 location):

• The blast wave damaged windows in a residential building.

In Pecherskyi district (5 different locations):

• A fire with an area of 150 square metres broke out in a one-storey non-residential building. It has been extinguished.
• Windows and doors were damaged in three residential buildings by the blast wave.

In Darnytskyi District:

• The fall of wreckage in five different locations, without negative consequences, was recorded. 

In Kyiv Oblast, as a result of the large-scale attack, partial destruction in private houses and apartment buildings, as well as car fires, were recorded in Bucha and Obukhiv districts.

Київська область: внаслідок масованої атаки в Бучанському та Обухівському районах сталися часткові руйнування в приватних та багатоповерхових житлових будинках, загорання автомобілів. За попередньою інформацією, травмовані троє людей. Відео ДСНС pic.twitter.com/bPeXZPpixY

— Українська правда ✌ (@ukrpravda_news) January 23, 2024

According to preliminary information, three people were injured, but they refused to be hospitalised.

Background:

• On the morning of 23 January, Ukraine’s Air Force reported the launch of cruise missiles from Russian bombers.
• Kyiv, Kharkiv, Pavlohrad, Shostka and other Ukrainian towns and cities were under attack.
• Explosions rang out in Kyiv during an air raid, and the authorities reported that air defence was responding to the attack. 
• As a result of a Russian attack on Kyiv on the morning of 23 January, residential buildings and a kindergarten were damaged in several districts of the city, and cars caught on fire in the Sviatoshynskyi district.
• According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, as of 08:45, five people are known to have been killed and at least 40 injured in the Russian missile attack on Ukraine.
• On the night of 22-23 January, Russia launched a combined missile attack on Ukraine, with Ukrainian air defence destroying 21 missiles out of the 41 used by the Russians.

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