Kyiv, Ukraine. Rescuers searched through rubble in Kyiv on Friday as the city observed a day of mourning, one day after a Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 30 people in the deadliest strike on the capital this year. Authorities said 92 people were wounded, while rescue operations continued and some people remained missing.
Casualties and missing people
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack wounded 92 people. The parents of a 10-year-old boy who was hospitalised after the strike, along with a 15-year-old girl, remained unaccounted for.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 10 people were still missing, with rescue operations continuing at three locations.
Rescue and identification efforts
Flags flew at half-mast across Kyiv as rescue teams worked for a second day in the city. Forensic experts were also working to identify recovered remains.
As excavators cleared debris, residents searched for belongings among the wreckage and laid flowers.
Residents describe damage
“We were praying to God that we would remain unharmed,” said Zoia, a 65-year-old pensioner whose apartment was damaged in the strike.
Tetiana Pryvalova, 27, another Kyiv resident, said a blast had blown out the windows and doors of her apartment.
“Part of the wall was broken through during the rescue of a woman,” she said. “The apartment is no longer liveable, and neither is the building as you can see.”
Strike in Sumy region
Separately, a Russian drone attack on a house in the northern Sumy region killed four people, including a woman and her toddler daughter, the Prosecutor General’s Office said.
Extent of destruction
Zelenskiy said more than 100 residential buildings had been damaged across the capital. The scale of destruction in Kyiv had little precedent even in a war now in its fifth year.