Three people were killed and 29 injured, including six children, in a Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv that destroyed two high-rise apartment buildings, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
Seven of the injured, including two children, were taken to the city’s hospitals, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app.
Debris from destroyed Russian air weapons fell onto a nine-story apartment building in Kyiv’s leafy Desnianskyi district, sparking a fire that quickly engulfed several stories, the mayor added.
Neighbors comfort a man whose son was killed in a Russian air strike on an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 26, 2025. AP
First responders inspect the damage left to an apartment building after an overnight Russian drone strike. REUTERS
Emergency workers climb into one of the destroyed floors struck and set a blaze by the Russian drone. AP
The fire has since been extinguished.
Ukraine’s state emergency service said that 13 people were rescued from the building’s upper floors.
The full scale of the attack was not immediately known.
Residents stand near their apartment building that was destroyed in the overnight air attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 26, 2025. REUTERS
Ukraine’s state emergency service said that 13 people were rescued from the building’s upper floors. APKyiv and its surrounding region were under air-raid alerts for about 1-1/2 hours before the air force called them off at around 12:30 a.m.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strikes on each other’s territory.
But thousands, mostly Ukrainians, have been killed in the war that Russia started with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
