Ukrainian firefighters battle a blaze at the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum complex in Kyiv early Monday after it was struck by a "Shahed"-type attack drone during a night-long Russian airborne assault on the capital that killed at least four people. Photo by Maxym Marusenko/EPA
June 15 (UPI) -- At least four people were killed and dozens injured in a Russian airborne attack on Kyiv overnight in which the capital's 975-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Dormition Cathedral was badly damaged.
A number of multi-story apartment buildings in Kyiv were hit with a pregnant woman and two children, aged 5 and 6, among 30 people injured and more than 140,000 residents were left without power.
Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the capital's military administration, said in a post on Telegram that a 25-story resisential block in Darnytskyi district was among several residential buildings hit in the 40 locations across the city that were targeted.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said Russia launched a total of 70 ballistic missiles and 611 drones targeting the country's central and eastern regions, called the strike on the cathedral "one of the biggest Russian crimes against Christian culture today."
