Russian attack sparks fire in Kyiv 9-story building: Casualties reported
Illustrative photo: State Emergency Service personnel fighting a fire (facebook.com/DSNSKyiv)
On the night of Friday, September 11, the Russians attacked Kyiv with strike drones. As a result, a fire broke out in a 9-story residential building, the Kyiv City Military Administration says.
At 3:19 a.m., the Ukrainian Air Force reported a jet drone flying past Ukrainka toward Kyiv, and a few minutes later, explosions were heard in the capital's sky.
A fire broke out in a 9-story residential building in the Dniprovskyi district.
Kyiv-based social media accounts posted footage of the fire—it shows a severe blaze that engulfed several floors at once, including the balconies.
The air raid alert was lifted at 4 a.m., and later the Kyiv City Military Administration reported two casualties as a result of the fire in the Dniprovskyi district.
As of 7:14 a.m., in the Dniprovskyi district, where a fire broke out due to a Russian drone, 8 people were injured. Specifically, a 64-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman suffered burns and were hospitalized.
A 23-year-old woman sustained a shrapnel wound. Medical personnel treated five other civilians without hospitalizing them.
Kyiv police also revealed photos from the scene of the incident.
Source: National Police of Ukraine
Source: National Police of Ukraine
The night before, around midnight, the Russians also attacked the Kyiv region with drones, damaging homes and industrial facilities in the region, and a fire was reported at a warehouse following one of the Russian strikes.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, stated that a fire had broken out at a civilian warehouse in the Bucha district. The announcement came amid recent explosions at military warehouses in the Kyiv region, which resulted in numerous casualties, injuries, and other losses.
This refers to the explosions near the Zhytomyr Highway, which also occurred in the Bucha district. There were reports of hundreds of casualties and the evacuation of residents.
