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Russia launched 5 ballistic missiles in opposition to Ukraine’s capital on the morning of Dec. 20, highlighting the stark distinction between the approaching vacation season and the realities of struggle.
Though Ukraine’s Air Force reported that every one projectiles had been downed, missile particles fell in at the very least 4 of Kyiv’s districts, beginning fires throughout town.
At least one particular person was killed, and 12 injured as first responders proceed to take care of the implications of the assault.
The Holosiivskyi district, south of town heart, was hit the toughest by the ballistic missile particles. Residential buildings, workplace buildings, and a lodge had been broken, with burning particles dropping on the streets and the roofs.
Damage to important infrastructure left 630 residential buildings, 16 medical amenities, 17 faculties, and 13 kindergartens with out heating amid December temperatures.
Non-residential buildings within the Solomianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts had been additionally broken by fallen particles. In the Pechersk district, a blast wave shattered valuable stained glass home windows of the St. Nicholas Roman Catholic church, the second-oldest Catholic church in Kyiv.
Civilians depart the location after a Russian ballistic missile hits town heart in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Vlada Liberova/Libkos/Getty Images)A destroyed home after a Russian ballistic missile hit town heart in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Vlada Liberova/Libkos/Getty Images)Ukrainian rescue companies get rid of the implications of a Russian ballistic missile hitting town heart in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)Hotel company left the closely broken Holiday Inn after a missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)A Kyiv resident seems within the path of an explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)Shattered home windows in Holiday Inn lodge after a Russian missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)Papers and particles from an workplace constructing seen on the tree after Russian missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)Shopkeepers are cleansing a rug from glass shards after a missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)Flowers saved from the destruction after a missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)Stained glass home windows of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church had been broken by a blast wave throughout a Russian missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Kyiv City Military Administration/Telegram)A resident of one of many buildings broken after a missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)Ukrainian firefighters attempt to extinguish a hearth on the location of a Russian missile assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey /AFP through Getty Images)Smoke rising over Maidan Nezalezhnosty after a missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 20, 2024. (Sasha Maslov / The Kyiv Independent)
Martin Fornusek
Senior News Editor
Martin Fornusek is a information editor on the Kyiv Independent. He has beforehand labored as a information content material editor on the media firm Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was additionally volunteering as an editor and translator on the Czech-language model of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor’s diploma in safety research and historical past and a grasp’s diploma in battle and democracy research.Read extra
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