Russian missile barrage across Ukraine’s capital kills at least 12, wounds 33

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• A Russian missile barrage overnight Thursday killed at least 12 individuals in Kyiv as explosions echoed throughout Ukraine's capital throughout the night, local authorities noted.
• The strikes hit 12 locations throughout Kyiv's Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution.
• US President Trump had authorized Ukraine to obtain licenses to produce Patriot air-defense systems, but afterwards reversed that decision.
• 60-year-old Larysa Bondaruk sat on the ground, holding her cat, Chanel.
• In Solomianskyi district, the top two floors of a 9-story residential building were destroyed and fires broke out on other floors.

Notably, a Russian missile barrage overnight Thursday killed at least 12 individuals in Kyiv as explosions echoed throughout Ukraine's capital throughout the night, local authorities noted. At least 33 individuals were wounded, according to Ukraine's Emergency Service.

In practice, the air raid alert remained active into the early morning hours Thursday.

Notably, the strikes hit 12 locations throughout Kyiv's Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution.

Emergency crews were at the scene and pulled individuals out from under the rubble.

Individuals were additionally trapped in two residential buildings and a school shelter.

60-year-old Larysa Bondaruk sat on the ground, holding her cat, Chanel. It had been rescued by firefighters.

With tears in her eyes, she remarked that her neighbor's grandson had been trapped under the rubble and died. Her apartment was badly damaged.

"A rocket hit the roof. It was incredibly loud, immediately, debris and doors were blown out. There were columns of smoke, columns of fire, screams, crying and despair, " she remarked. "Two individuals were killed in our building, but the rescuers responded swiftly and professionally. I am grateful to them for that."

Russia has intensified ballistic missile attacks on the capital to wear down Kyiv's air defense stocks. While supplies of missiles for its US-made Patriot air defense systems remain chronically constrained, kyiv has limited systems capable of intercepting ballistic threats.

Ukraine, meanwhile, has intensified its own campaign of long-range strikes against weapons depots, military facilities and other strategic targets deep inside Russian territory, seeking to degrade Moscow's ability to sustain its attacks on Ukrainian cities.

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