Scores Injured In Russian Ballistic Missile Strike On Kyiv

Residents gather outside their apartment building damaged in an early morning Russian ballistic missile attack in Kyiv on December 13.

Ukraine claimed on Telegram to have downed 10 ballistic missiles that targeted the capital.

Emergency staff work at the site of the attack that struck an apartment building.

Falling debris caused injuries and destruction in four of Kyiv's districts along the Dnieper River, which cuts through the capital, officials said.

Emergency staff carry a wounded resident to an awaiting ambulance.

Debris damaged windows and doors at a children's hospital in the Dnipro district of Kyiv, though there were no injuries, Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.

A person wounded in the attack is carried to a waiting ambulance.

Debris also hit several residential buildings in the Dnipro district, injuring at least 51 people, including six children, Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's military administration, said on Telegram. The district's water supply was also damaged.

A resident looks out from her damaged apartment.

Popko said that most of the injuries came from windows blown out by the blast wave. "There are many injured," he said, suggesting that the number of wounded may rise.

The attack followed a salvo of ballistic missiles that targeted Kyiv early on December 11 and injured four people.

Petro Khomyn, 71, surveys the damage to his apartment.
 

Khomyn looks out from where his windows once stood.

Emergency staff work through the morning.

 

An injured man smokes a cigarette at the scene of the attack.

Destroyed cars lie near a children's playground.

A woman surveys the scene from her apartment whose windows were blown out during the attack.

Both Moscow and Kyiv deny targeting civilians in the nearly 22-month-long war that Russia launched against its neighbor in February 2022.