By Burc Eruygur
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 50 people were injured on Wednesday in an overnight Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, with the Ukrainian military claiming that it downed 10 missiles on their way to the capital.
“In total, 53 people were injured as a result of the enemy's night attack. 20 of them, including two children, were hospitalized. Doctors treated 33 victims on the spot, in particular 6 children,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
Earlier, Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said on Telegram that 51 people were injured during the attack.
Noting that about a dozen cases of falling debris were recorded due to the work of air defense systems in shooting down Russian missiles on their way to Kyiv, Popko said that those falling in the capital’s Holosiivskyi district did not lead to any explosions.
Popko said that falling debris in the Darnytskyi district caused a fire at a nine-story residential building in the Desnianskyi district.
The Red Cross is working on the spot, and medical assistance is being provided to the injured, Popko further said.
He also said that blasts in the Dniprovskyi district shattered windows in two residential buildings, led to a fire at a private residential building, and damaged a water supply network.
A separate statement by the Ukrainian Air Force claimed that air defense systems downed all 10 missiles launched during an attempted Russian missile attack on Kyiv.
“All ten targets flying in the direction of the city of Kyiv on a ballistic trajectory were shot down by an anti-aircraft missile unit of the Air Force. The type of missiles can be determined only after the wreckage has been studied by the relevant services,” the statement said.
Russian officials have not yet commented on the missile attack on Kyiv.