{"id":55395,"date":"2025-08-28T09:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/russian-strike-on-kyiv-leaves-eight-dead-dozens-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:51:09","slug":"russian-strike-on-kyiv-leaves-eight-dead-dozens-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/russian-strike-on-kyiv-leaves-eight-dead-dozens-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian strike on Kyiv leaves eight dead, dozens injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

The assault left residential neighbourhoods in ruins and plunged the Ukrainian capital once again into grief and shock.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko confirmed the death toll, warning that it could rise as rescuers continued to search for survivors beneath the rubble. Emergency crews spent hours digging through debris in several districts, pulling out the wounded and carrying away bodies as smoke and dust filled the air.<\/p>\n

Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv\u2019s city administration, described the scale of destruction as devastating. In the Darnytskyi district, a five-storey apartment block was almost completely destroyed, while windows and roofs were blown out across entire neighbourhoods. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is destroyed,\u201d Tkachenko said, capturing the despair of residents who watched their homes collapse.<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack as a calculated effort to terrorise civilians and break the country\u2019s spirit. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese are not just attacks on buildings, they are attempts to sow fear and destroy our will,\u201d he said. Zelenskyy urged the international community to respond with stronger measures, stressing, \u201cThe world must force Russia to take real steps toward peace. Silence and hesitation only encourage more violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Witnesses described scenes of chaos as sirens blared and explosions ripped through the capital. A mother who survived the strikes said she shielded her child in a corridor just moments before the blast shattered their apartment. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe glass flew everywhere. If we had stayed in the room, we would not be alive,\u201d she recalled tearfully.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s military reported intercepting many of the missiles and drones, but said Russia\u2019s use of combined drone swarms and missile barrages was designed to overwhelm defences. Despite successes, several projectiles penetrated the shield and slammed into residential areas.<\/p>\n

The attack comes days before Ukrainian officials are due to meet U.S. representatives in New York, where Kyiv will push for renewed military and diplomatic support. Zelenskyy voiced frustration at Moscow\u2019s continued intransigence, saying Russia was sending \u201carrogant and negative signals\u201d instead of seeking genuine dialogue.<\/p>\n

As night fell, rescue teams continued working under floodlights, while families huddled in shelters, fearing more strikes. The scenes of destroyed apartment blocks, burned-out cars, and children wrapped in blankets outside emergency centres underscored the human cost of a war that has already dragged on for more than three years.<\/p>\n

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Kyiv has been hit by one of the heaviest bombardments in recent months after Russia launched a massive wave of drones and missiles on Thursday morning, killing at least eight people, including two children, and injuring more than 40 others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000093310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093310,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025-08-28t055232z_362439613_rc25ggavfq3o_rtrmadp_3_ukraine-crisis-attack-kyiv-1756361440.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025-08-28t055232z_362439613_rc25ggavfq3o_rtrmadp_3_ukraine-crisis-attack-kyiv-1756361440.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025-08-28t055232z_362439613_rc25ggavfq3o_rtrmadp_3_ukraine-crisis-attack-kyiv-1756361440.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025-08-28t055232z_362439613_rc25ggavfq3o_rtrmadp_3_ukraine-crisis-attack-kyiv-1756361440.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025-08-28t055232z_362439613_rc25ggavfq3o_rtrmadp_3_ukraine-crisis-attack-kyiv-1756361440.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2025-08-28t055232z_362439613_rc25ggavfq3o_rtrmadp_3_ukraine-crisis-attack-kyiv-1756361440.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55395"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55395"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}