© Reuters. Firefighters work at a website of an house constructing broken throughout a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine December 13, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
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By Sergiy Karazy and Valentyn Ogirenko
KYIV (Reuters) – Russia’s second missile assault on Kyiv this week injured a minimum of 34 folks and broken properties and a youngsters’s hospital, Ukrainian officers stated on Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded in Washington for extra assist for his nation.
Ukraine’s air defence programs downed all missiles focusing on the capital about 3 a.m. (0100 GMT), Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s navy administration, stated on the Telegram messaging app. The total scale of the assault was not instantly clear.
Falling particles precipitated accidents and destruction in three of Kyiv’s districts on the jap aspect of the Dnipro River that cuts by means of the capital, officers stated.
Home windows and entrances had been shattered by particles at a youngsters’s hospital in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district, however based mostly on preliminary assessments, there have been no casualties, Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated on Telegram.
Particles additionally hit a number of residential buildings within the Dniprovskyi district, injuring a minimum of 34 folks, with 15 requiring hospitalisation, together with two youngsters, Klitschko added. The district’s water provide was additionally broken.
The precise weapons Russia used within the assault weren’t instantly recognized. It adopted a salvo of ballistic missiles that focused Kyiv early on Monday and injured 4 folks.
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden warned Republicans that they’d give Russia a “Christmas gift” in the event that they failed to supply extra navy assist to Zelenskiy, whose assembly with a high U.S. lawmaker concluded with no dedication for extra help.
There was no remark from Russia in regards to the assault on Wednesday, which additionally broken buildings in Kyiv’s Desnyanskyi and Darnitskyi districts.
Each Moscow and Kyiv deny focusing on civilians within the practically 22-month-long warfare that Russia launched towards its neighbour in February 2022.
Popko stated 15 folks, together with 4 youngsters, had been evacuated from a residential constructing within the Dniprovskyi district after particles hit a constructing and close by vehicles, inflicting a fireplace.
He added that the majority accidents got here from home windows blown out by the blast wave.
“There are many injured,” Popko stated, suggesting that the variety of wounded could rise.
