24-05-2025
Ukraine says 15 people hurt in 'massive' Russian attack on capital
As dawn broke on Saturday, residents at an apartment building just outside the centre of Kyiv were surveying the damage caused by drones.
Dozens of windows had been shattered, and balconies on one side of the building were smashed.
'I wish they'd agree to a ceasefire. To bomb people like this,' said Olha Chyrukha, a 64-year-old resident. 'The poor children! My three-year-old granddaughter was screaming scared.'
The Obolon district on the north-western edge of Kyiv was the worst hit, officials said. A resident there, 42-year-old Olha Kalina, said her apartment was struck.
She was spending the night with her own parents elsewhere, but two of her children, aged 20 and 13, were in the apartment. 'The kids rang me at three in the morning and said: 'Mum, we've been hit. The balcony's on fire'.'
Kalina rushed to the scene, and found her children sheltering in a nearby underground car park, their faces blackened from smoke. She said the apartment was no longer habitable because of fire damage.
