[UPDATED: May 15, 8:38 am
, Kyiv time. Updated with a report of an increase in the number of deaths in Kyiv.]
At least 24 people, including three children, were killed in Russia’s overnight strike on Kyiv on Thursday, with the death toll rising as emergency services continued clearing rubble and searching for people trapped beneath a destroyed residential building in the capital’s Darnytskyi district. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 675 attack drones and 56 missiles, mainly targeting Kyiv. Ukrainian air defense units intercepted 652 drones (a 94 percent success rate) and 41 missiles (a 73 percent success rate) during the attack.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. In his evening address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said rescue teams were still searching the ruins of a Kyiv apartment block destroyed by a Russian missile strike. “Work is still ongoing in Kyiv at the site of the strike on a residential building – a Russian missile strike, a residential building literally destroyed, floors from the first to the ninth,” Zelensky said. Emergency workers were searching for people under the rubble and working to determine the fate of those still missing. At the time of Zelensky’s address, officials had confirmed 10 deaths and 45 injuries in Kyiv. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS) later said the death toll had risen to 21, including three children. Seven bodies were pulled from the rubble of one destroyed residential building, including three men, three women and a young girl, police said.
