A burning building at the site of a Russian strike in Kyiv on August 20, 2026. Photo: Ukrainian State Emergency Service / AFP / Lehtikuva
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Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv killed at least 12 people and injured more than 30 overnight, Ukrainian authorities said on Thursday, as attacks damaged homes, warehouses, a school and a children’s hospital.
The strikes began around midnight and continued into Thursday morning. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said seven people died in the city’s Solomianskyi district, where the upper floors of a nine-storey residential building were destroyed and a fire broke out.
Klitschko said 12 people were killed across Kyiv and declared Friday a day of mourning. One more person was reported killed in the wider Kyiv region, bringing the reported death toll in the capital and surrounding area to at least 13.
