LONDON — A Russian aerial strike that hit a number of residential buildings in Kyiv killed six folks, together with a 6-year-old boy, the top of the town’s navy administration mentioned Thursday.
A constructing within the Sviatoshynskyi district was a “direct hit,” Tymur Tkachenko mentioned in a message on Telegram, including that it was considered one of 27 places in Kyiv that have been struck by Russia in a single day.
A minimum of 52 folks have been injured, he mentioned. 9 youngsters have been among the many greater than 30 folks transported to hospitals for his or her accidents, he mentioned.
Rescuers work on the website of an residence constructing hit throughout Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2025.
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“It is a horrible morning in Kyiv,” Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s minister of overseas affairs, mentioned in a social media publish. “The brutal Russian strikes destroyed whole residential buildings and broken faculties and hospitals. Civilians are injured and killed.”
Girls react outdoors a destroyed residence constructing after a Russian missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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“There are nonetheless folks beneath the rubble,” Sybiha added.
The Russian strike in the midst of the night time on the residence constructing, the place the six folks have been killed, amounted to a “notably sinister act,” mentioned Ruslan Stefanchuk, a lawmaker who chairs the Ukrainian parliament.
“This isn’t merely a criminal offense — it’s additional proof that Russia is intentionally waging warfare in opposition to the Ukrainian folks,” he mentioned on social media. “Its targets are our properties, our kids, and our fundamental proper to reside freely in our personal nation.”
