Police release footage of Russian missile strike on Kyiv
Photo: police at the scene of the attack (Getty Images)
On the night of September 8, Russian forces launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv. Patrol police officers showed the first minutes after the strike, according to a statement by Oleksii Biloshytskyi, head of the Patrol Police Department.
Law enforcement officers released body camera footage showing the moment the Russian missile struck and the first minutes of the patrol officers’ response immediately after the explosion.
The footage shows patrol officers immediately rushing to help civilians in the affected area.
Upon arriving at the scene of the attack, the officers found injured people and immediately provided them with the necessary first aid.
On the night of September 8, Russian forces launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv. Patrol police officers showed the first minutes after the strike pic.twitter.com/w2D5IudFTU
— RBC-Ukraine (@NewsUkraineRBC) September 8, 2026
One of the injured people was urgently taken to the hospital in a police vehicle and handed over to medics.
During the Russian attack, a Russian drone struck the building of the My-Ukraina (We Are Ukraine) TV channel, where the United News telethon was being broadcast. Five people are currently known to have been injured, but the number could rise.
The overnight Russian attack also damaged at least 14 apartment buildings in Kyiv, as well as a school, clinic, supermarket and gas station. The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office opened criminal proceedings over the war crime.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also said that during the overnight strike, Russian forces deliberately sought to cause as much damage as possible to civilians in the capital.
Later, Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said the number of people injured in Russia's combined attack on Kyiv had risen to 16.
