Scenes of devastation as residential buildings hit during deadly Russian attack on Ukraine capital

Описание: (17 Jun 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine - 17 June 2025
1. Wide of people hiding during Russian Shahed drone attack
2. Smoke after Russian drones and missiles attack
3. Destroyed residential building after Russian drone and missile attack
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Lapyshnak, resident of destroyed building:
"There was just a whistle, then two explosions, then the Shaheds flew and everything blew out all the windows, doors, and then it all started."
5. Wide of destroyed building
6. Various of emergency services helping injured man
7. Fire engine pulling up aside burning building
8. Various of helicopter flying overhead and dumping water
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Lebedeva Vladislava, student:
"There was a strike, Russians have hit Kyiv. I live close where the strike happened. It was very loud, it was scary, it cannot be described."
10. Various of firefighters working to extinguish fire
STORYLINE:
At least 14 people were killed and 44 others were injured in a combined Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight Tuesday.

The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration the attack which hollowed out a residential building and destroyed dozens of apartments.

The interior minister visited the scene and said that a U.S. citizen was killed in the attack after suffering wounds from shrapnel.

Thirty apartments were destroyed in a single residential block, he added.

People were wounded in the city's Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts.

Kyiv's mayor said fires broke out in two other Kyiv districts as a result of falling debris from drones shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.

The night time attack was the latest in a spate of mass drone and missile attacks to target the Ukraine capital.

AP video by Vasilisa Stepanenko and Alex Babenko

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