Kyiv: One dead and 22 injured, including four children, in Russian ballistic missile strikes on six districts

One person was killed and 22 were injured, among them four children, in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv from the evening of Wednesday, October 21, until early Thursday. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) announced that Russian forces hit six districts of the capital, causing fires and destruction.

In the Dniprovskyi district one person was killed and a child taken to hospital, with five others injured. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that a car workshop and a private house were hit there, and that people could be under the rubble. In Pecherskyi, buildings, ambulances and a monastery were damaged, with eight injured, three of them children; Klitschko said an ambulance station building was hit and six vehicles were damaged, with no injuries among medical staff.

A transport facility was hit in Darnytskyi without casualties. In Sviatoshynskyi a building and a restaurant complex of 1,100 square metres burned. Two people were injured in Obolonskyi and six in Kholosiivskyi after a building was hit. Part of the metro infrastructure at the Southern Bridge over the Dnipro was also damaged.

The attack came in two waves. The first, early on Wednesday evening, left six injured. Overnight Klitschko reported 15 injured, including two 15-year-olds, before the SES raised the toll in the morning. Kyiv has come under constant ballistic missile attack in October, including on October 13, when missiles hit a thermal power plant and an apartment block, killing three.

The strikes came hours after Vladimir Putin, meeting Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, accepted the resumption of trilateral talks between the US, Russia and Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky, who had said shortly before that he is open to a ceasefire along current lines, said he hopes Russia will keep its word on a meeting “in any format”.