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Kyiv got here underneath one other mass Russian assault within the early hours of June 17, involving ballistic missiles and drones.
Kyiv Impartial journalists on the bottom reported the sounds of drones and a number of explosions all through the capital.
Not less than 9 individuals have been injured within the metropolis’s Sviatoshynskyi district, whereas 11 others have been wounded within the Solomianskyi district, together with a girl in severe situation, in response to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Six individuals have been hospitalized.
The higher flooring of a residential constructing in Solomianskyi have been broken, and particles fell at two places within the Darnytskyi district, certainly one of which caught hearth. First responders have been additionally dispatched to the Obolonskyi district.
The assault adopted a collection of drone strikes in a single day on June 16 concentrating on Kyiv Oblast, together with each the capital and surrounding settlements. Within the Obukhiv district, a 60-year-old man was injured, in response to regional authorities.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Hodunova