Russian missile strikes specially-abled residential facility in Ukraine’s Kyiv

A Russian missile has hit a residential
building housing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities near
Kyiv, a statement issued by Kyiv Region Council stated.

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According to the council statement, two
missiles hit the Pushcha-Vodicʹkomu care home on Sunday, one destroying the
boiler room and another hitting the mortuary. Though the residential building was badly
damaged at the time of the strikes, staff and the resident of the facilities
had been evacuated to a safe place.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, there is no
respite for Kyiv citizens from the terror of strikes against residential
buildings, with more deadly shelling on Monday morning.

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According to the statement, one person died and six
more were injured when an apartment building in the Obolon district of Kyiv was
hit early on Monday.

The residents of the building were able to
come back to their apartments to collect their belongings, but only after
showing their documents.

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Another strike hit a road in Kurenivka,
another residential district in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring six more,
according to a statement from Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

“Kyiv was attacked by the enemy today,”
Klichko said, adding that an empty trolleybus that was on the road was
completely destroyed.

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“Windows were blown out and balconies of
surrounding houses and businesses [occupying] the ground floors were
destroyed,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian emergency services
revised the number of people killed and injured as a result of shelling of a
residential building in a Kyiv suburb on Monday, saying one person – not two –
was killed, and six were injured, of whom five needed to be hospitalised.

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“Rescuers who arrived on the scene found
that as a result of enemy shelling between residential five- and 10-storey buildings,
a fire broke out in two apartments on the third and fourth floors of a 5-storey
residential building,” rescue services said.

Emergency services rescued 15 people and 63
were evacuated after a shell hit the ninth floor of a residential building in the
Obolon district, a northern suburb of the Ukrainian capital.