Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv injures 53

Russia launched a ballistic missile strike on Kyiv overnight, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, which reported that it had shot down all 10 inbound Russian missiles, but that falling debris had injured at least 50 people.

A total of 53 people were injured, according to the Kyiv City Administration, including eight children. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that 45 of the injured had been in the city’s Dnipro district. Of those, 20 had been hospitalized, including two children. No deaths have been reported.

A house in the city’s Holosiivskyi district reportedly caught fire after being struck by debris. In the Desnianskyi district, the seventh floor of a nine-storey residential building also caught fire. The shock wave from one of the shot down missiles reportedly blew out windows in two residential buildings and a hospital in the Dnipro district.

Commenting on the attacks from Washington DC, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had “once again confirmed its title as a shameful country that fires missiles at night, hitting residential areas, kindergartens, and energy facilities in winter.”