Russian forces launched a large-scale overnight attack on Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles early Friday, November 14. Updated figures show five people were killed and 34 injured. Among the wounded are children aged 7 and 10. Earlier reports put the toll at four dead and 27 injured.
βA Shahed struck an apartment building in the Desnianskyi district, essentially piercing part of the structure. That is where the fatalities occurred. Search and rescue and debris-clearing operations are underway. One person has already been pulled out,β Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, spokesperson for Ukraineβs State Emergency Service, said on a national news broadcast.
Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said 15 people were hospitalized, including a pregnant woman; others were treated at the scene.
The State Emergency Service said the most severe damage was in the Desnianskyi district, where a fire spread through apartments from the 5th to the 8th floors of a high-rise. Rescuers evacuated 14 people, including one child, and pulled another person from the rubble. A separate fire broke out on the 7th floor of another building in the same district, where nine people were rescued and 50 more evacuated. In the Dniprovskyi district, crews extinguished fires in two apartments in a five-story building and helped 17 residents evacuate. The 19th and 21st floors of another building there were also destroyed.
In the Podilskyi district, a missile hit a multi-story residential building around the 15th floor; 13 people were rescued. In the Obolonskyi district, debris struck a nine-story building, igniting apartments from the 7th to the 9th floors. One person was rescued and the fire was extinguished. In the Solomianskyi district, a residential buildingβs fifth floor and roof caught fire. In the Sviatoshynskyi district, a high-rise was hit around the seventh floor, and a 22-story building also caught fire. Debris fell on the grounds of a hospital in the Holosiivskyi district and on a school campus in the Darnytskyi district; no injuries were reported in those two cases.
Authorities also reported six injured in Kyiv region, including one child, according to regional military administration head Nikolai Kalashnik. He said both critical infrastructure and residential buildings were targeted.
Officials in the Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv and Sumy regions also warned of drone threats overnight on November 14.
