LONDON — A Russian aerial strike that hit a number of residential buildings in Kyiv killed six folks, together with a 6-year-old boy, the top of the town’s navy administration mentioned Thursday.
A constructing within the Sviatoshynskyi district was a “direct hit,” Tymur Tkachenko mentioned in a message on Telegram, including that it was considered one of 27 places in Kyiv that had been struck by Russia in a single day.
At the very least 52 folks had been injured, he mentioned. 9 kids had been among the many greater than 30 folks transported to hospitals for his or her accidents, he mentioned.
Rescuers work on the web site of an residence constructing hit throughout Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2025.
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“It is a horrible morning in Kyiv,” Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s minister of overseas affairs, mentioned in a social media put up. “The brutal Russian strikes destroyed total residential buildings and broken colleges and hospitals. Civilians are injured and killed.”
Girls react outdoors a destroyed residence constructing after a Russian missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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“There are nonetheless folks beneath the rubble,” Sybiha added.
The Russian strike in the midst of the night time on the residence constructing, the place the six folks had been killed, amounted to a “significantly sinister act,” mentioned Ruslan Stefanchuk, a lawmaker who chairs the Ukrainian parliament.
“This isn’t merely against the law — it’s additional proof that Russia is intentionally waging battle towards the Ukrainian folks,” he mentioned on social media. “Its targets are our houses, our kids, and our fundamental proper to stay freely in our personal nation.”
