Kyiv Residential Building Partially Collapses After Russian Attack, People Trapped Inside

Editor’s note: this is a developing story.

Russia launched a massive missile attack on Kyiv overnight, causing fires, damaging residential and non-residential buildings, and leaving people trapped inside a high-rise in the city’s Podilskyi district, Ukrainian officials reported on July 6.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said emergency services were responding to several locations across the capital after debris fell in multiple districts.

UPD2. As of 3:52 am, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, stated that the number of injured in the Russian airstrike increased to five people.

UPD1. As of 3:15 am, Klitschko reported that three people were wounded as a result of a Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian capital. One woman was taken to the hospital, while two others were treated on site.

In the Podilskyi district, part of a residential building was damaged, with people reportedly trapped between the seventh and ninth floors. Debris also fell on the territory of a garage cooperative.

Klitschko later said that, according to preliminary information, debris had fallen on another residential building in the Podilskyi district. Multiple cars are burning at the site of the attack.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko added that debris caused a fire in an apartment building in the Darnytskyi district.

Tkachenko also confirmed damage in the Podilskyi district, saying a residential building had been partially destroyed and garages were damaged at another address.

Tkachenko also reported debris falling in the Holosiivskyi district, cars burning in the Podilskyi district, and people trapped inside a multi-story residential building.

The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration later reported that apartment buildings were damaged at three separate locations in the Darnytskyi district.

“These are residential buildings. Places where people were sleeping, living their ordinary lives,” Tkachenko said.

UPD. At least three people were injured in Kyiv region as Russia’s combined mass attack continued, according to Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, as of 3:03 am.

“Unfortunately, we have casualties as a result of another enemy attack on Kyiv region. In Bucha district, three people are in the hospital. Doctors are providing them with all necessary assistance. I will report on their condition separately,” Kalashnyk said.

He added that the large-scale combined attack was still ongoing.

Emergency services were dispatched to the affected sites.

Previously, a Russian guided aerial bomb strike heavily damaged a residential building in Sumy, killing four people and injuring more than 10 others.

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