Kyiv was attacked by more than 30 Russian missiles: the consequences of a large-scale strike
According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhnyi, on the night and early morning of Friday, December 29, the Russians launched one of the largest number of missiles and drones over Ukraine during the entire war — 158. Of them, the Air Defense Forces destroyed 27 Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs and 87 cruise missiles X-101/X-555/X-55. The cities of Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia and Konotop were the most affected by shelling. In particular, more than 30 rockets flew at the capital. According to the National Police, 18 dead and 132 wounded are known.
47 private houses, 39 cars, a hospital and a sanatorium, 9 apartment buildings, two administrative buildings, farm buildings, a service station, a garage cooperative, a gas station, a warehouse, a school, a church, a shopping and entertainment center, a maternity hospital were damaged.
Mass attack on Kyiv: the State Emergency Service spoke about the consequences
Massive attack on Kyiv: operational information as of 15:00.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine spoke about the consequences of a massive enemy attack on Kyiv.
Podilsky district: a fire broke out in a warehouse. At 12:05, the fire was extinguished on an area of 4,000 square meters.
Shevchenkiv district: a fire broke out in 2 warehouses with a total area of 2,000 square meters. m. At 12:00 the fire was contained, liquidation continues.
The State Emergency Service reminds that there was a fire in a 14-story uninhabited new building in the Cvyatoshyn district, and 3 cars caught fire at another address; in the Shevchenkiv district, in addition to the warehouse, there was a fire in a garage and an unfinished business center. The fire was extinguished.
In general, 9 people died and 30 were injured as a result of enemy shelling of the capital.
49 units of fire-rescue equipment were used at the scene of the events,
Emergency rescue and search operations are ongoing. Information about the victims is being updated.
In Kyiv, the number of dead as a result of a large-scale airstrike by Russian troops in the morning of December 29 is constantly increasing.
According to the chairman of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko, rescuers retrieved the bodies of seven people from under the rubble.
“The bodies of three more victims were retrieved from the rubble of a warehouse in Shevchenkivskyi district within the last few hours. The number of dead as a result of the morning attack on the capital increased to 9 people,” he wrote.
On the morning of December 29, at nine o’clock in the morning, the Ukrainian air defense, among other things, worked on Russian missiles on the Left Bank of the capital.
There, the fragments of the downed rocket hit the yard of a private house. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
At noon, the police, military and pyrotechnics work at the site of the downed rocket.
“We heard a whistle, then a loud explosion, went outside, saw that the debris was already burning, everything was hissing, smoke was coming out. Thank God no one was hurt. A huge fragment from the rocket fell in the neighbor’s yard. He says everything is fine, he’s alive, only the car it rained,” said Serhiy, who lives in the nearby hostel.
Vitaliy, another resident of the street where the remains of the rocket fell, says that he was just going to the store when the Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire started working.
“At first I wanted to turn onto the street where the debris fell, but for some reason I turned onto another. Because if I had followed the first, I wouldn’t be here. I’m walking and I hear the arrival of planes, I raise my head and see a rocket that has already been hit above my head. It flies straight at me. What to do? I sat down, bent down, and it hit the ground 50 meters from me. It was lucky,” the man recalls.