Russia's attack on Kyiv region kills one, sparks fires, Ukraine says
KYIV: An overnight Russian drone and missile attack in and around Kyiv killed one person, sparked fires in residential areas and damaged an entrance to a metro station that serves as a bomb shelter, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday.
'The Russians' style is unchanged - to hit where there may be people,' Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration said on the Telegram messaging app. 'Residential buildings, exits from shelters - this is the Russian style.' Russia has not commented on the strikes.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia launched in February 2022, but thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict - the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
A 68-year-old woman was killed and at least two people were injured in the attack on the broader Kyiv region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, its governor Mykola Kalashnik said on Telegram.
In the capital itself, at least five people were injured, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
Photos posted by Ukraine's State Emergency Service showed rescuers leading people to safety from several buildings and structures on fire in the dark.
The Service said a pregnant woman was among those rescued.
The attack caused damage in three of the city's 10 districts, including in several apartment buildings, Klitschko said.
An exit to the metro station in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi districts was also damaged, as well as an adjacent bus stop, Kyiv's officials said.
Ukraine army chief vows to expand strikes on Russia
Kyiv's deep metro stations have been used throughout the war as some of the city's safest bomb shelters.
Russia's deadliest attack on Kyiv last week with hundreds of drones killed 28 people and injured more than 150, with Ukrainian officials saying that nearly 30 sites were hit during the multi-wave attack.
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