As a result of the attack of Russian troops on the capital, a residential building on Zhilyanska Street was destroyed, there are victims among local residents.
On Monday, October 17, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck Kiev with the help of Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.
At 10:06, the mayor of the capital Vitaliy Klitschko reported that an explosion occurred in a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district as a result of the strike. At that time, 18 people were rescued from the rubble.
Rescuers later found the body of a dead woman at the scene, as of 11:32 a.m. one person was under the rubble. Three people were hospitalized. Already by 12:25, the number of dead increased to two, 19 people were rescued, four were injured, Deputy Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.
According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, just this morning five ‘arrivals’ of kamikaze drones were recorded in Kyiv. Russia launched 28 such drones in the direction of Kyiv.
‘Energy facilities and a residential building were damaged,’ the head of the Ukrainian government said.
Mayor Klitschko also reported that a cat was pulled out from under the rubble of the building.
Judging by photos from the scene and data from the Google Maps service, we are talking about a house located on Zhilyanska street in the Shevchenkiv district of the capital.
The house on Zhilyanska Street before and after the ‘arrival’
We will remind you that the first Russian attack by Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones on Kyiv was carried out around 7:00 am. Several explosions rang out in the Shevchenkiv district of Kyiv, and multi-apartment residential buildings were damaged as a result of drone strikes.
