At least nine killed, more than 60 wounded in deadly Russian missile attack on Kyiv, emergency service says
At least nine people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a "massive" missile and drone attack on Kyiv, according to Ukraine's state emergency service.
Warning: This story contains graphic imagery.
It is among the deadliest attacks on the capital in the three-year war, according to AFP.
"Russia has launched a massive combined strike on Kyiv," the state emergency service said on Telegram, updating the toll, early on Thursday, local time.
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According to preliminary data, nine people were killed, 63 injured.
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Rescue workers clear the rubble at a house damaged in the Russian air strike in Kyiv.
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It added that among the 42 people hospitalised, six were children.
Five districts across the capital suffered damage, including fires in garages and administrative buildings that have since been extinguished.
The state emergency service said the attack also damaged residential buildings.
"The search for people under the rubble is underway," it said.
An injured woman sits near her house which was damaged by the Russian air strike.
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In a bomb shelter set up in a basement of a residential building, more than a dozen residents gathered after the air alert started, an AFP journalist witnessed.
Kyiv was last hit by missiles in early April when at least three people were wounded.
A mother comforts her son in a school basement being used as a shelter after the strike.
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It has been the target of sporadic attacks since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
In Ukraine's east, the city of Kharkiv was hit by seven missiles early on Thursday, Mayor Igor Terekhov said.
Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building struck by a Russian ballistic missile.
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He added later that it was "under attack by cruise missiles for the second time in one night".
"One of the most recent strikes hit a densely populated residential area," he said.
"Two people were injured there. The inspection of the sites of enemy strikes is underway."
Medics tend to an injured woman.
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Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Russia was attacking Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities "with missiles and drones right now".
"Putin shows only a desire to kill," he said.
"The attacks on civilians must stop."
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