Casualties mount in Kyiv strikes, embassy building damaged PHOTO / VIDEO / Updated

The number of people injured in an attack on Kyiv has risen to 25, with four confirmed dead, authorities report. Significant damage has been recorded across the city, including to the building of a foreign embassy.

According to the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office, three of the deceased were residents of a residential complex in the Dnipro District. The fourth victim was a 58-year-old emergency medical worker who had responded to the scene in the Darnytskyi District.

Among the injured are healthcare workers, rescue personnel, and a police officer.

The attacks have damaged 19 high-rise apartment buildings, shattered windows at a nursery, and caused harm to a tram depot, an unfinished residential building, several vehicles, a supermarket, and a petrol station.

Rescue services and law enforcement continue to operate at the affected sites, and the final toll of casualties is still being confirmed.

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Kyiv has been struck by overnight attacks that left four people dead and 22 others injured, including five emergency workers, authorities have reported. All those wounded are receiving medical care in local hospitals.

According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the strikes, attributed to Russian forces, targeted residential areas of the Ukrainian capital, causing fires and damage to both homes and industrial sites.

In the Darnytskyi district, the upper floors of a high-rise building and nearby vehicles caught fire. During a subsequent attack, five rescuers were injured while responding to the scene.

Two bodies were also recovered from a residential building in the Dniprovskyi district. Fires and destruction were reported in several other districts, including Desnianskyi, Pecherskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Brovarskyi, Obukhivskyi, and Boryspil.

Rescue teams continue to work across the city, with 32 people reported saved so far. Among those rescued was a family of four in the Brovarskyi district, pulled from the rubble.

Authorities say the situation remains under investigation, and updates are expected as more information becomes available.

By Aghakazim Guliyev