At least three other people were injured in the attack, while another nighttime strike on the southern town of Zaporizhzhia left ten people injured, the regional governor said.
kyiv is frequently targeted by Russian drones and missiles, but casualties are rare in the capital, which is heavily protected by air defense systems and better able to repel attacks than anywhere else in the country.
“Unfortunately, we already have four dead in the Shevchenkivsky district and three injured”indicated Tymour Tkatchenko, head of the kyiv military administration, on Telegram, after reporting a “enemy attack” against this part of kyiv.
“More proof that Putin wants war, not peace”declared Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriï Sybiga in a message posted on social networks.
The Russian President “must be forced to accept a just peace by force and by maximum economic and military pressure”he added.
The Ukrainian air force said it had shot down two Iskander ballistic missiles as well as 24 Russian attack drones overnight.
The downed missiles are “fallen” on the central Shevchenkivsky district of kyiv, damaging an industrial building, a passage leading to the metro as well as residential buildings, according to the same source, adding that the local water supply was temporarily impacted.
-An AFP journalist in kyiv saw street flooding at the site of the attack and the charred structure of a bombed McDonald’s.
Air defenses were active in the capital throughout the night, the city’s mayor said in reports posted on social media.
The attack comes as kyiv has stepped up its air attacks on Russian energy and military facilities in recent months.
kyiv’s military has recently carried out strikes on several Russian oil depots, including two major attacks on a facility near a military airfield in Russia’s Saratov region, which sparked fires that lasted for several days.
The Russian military said Saturday it struck in retaliation for Ukraine’s use of U.S. ATACMS missiles.
“Russian armed forces carried out a group strike with precision-guided weapons against Ukrainian military-industrial installations, including a site that manufactures long-range missiles”according to the Russian Defense Minister.
