Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles against Kyiv overnight on July 31, killing at least six people and injuring 52, local authorities reported.
The attack killed four people in Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district and two in Solomianskyi, including a six-year-old boy.
Three police officers were among the injured. Overall, 29 people required hospitalization as of approximately 7:00 a.m. local time. First responders have been working at the scenes of the attacks.
“There are nine children among the injured. This is the highest number of injured children during a single night in Kyiv since the start of the full-scale invasion,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
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At the time of this writing, the number of victims in Kyiv has increased to 82 people, including at least 10 children, five of them in hospitals, said head of the city’s military administration Tymur Tkachenko.
“… A 6-year-old boy died in an ambulance. He was not pulled out of the other world. At least 10 children injured, five of them in hospitals. The Russians did it. A girl, 5 months old, wounded — she was targeted by the Russians,” he wrote on Telegram, noting that the data are not final.