Powerful Explosions In Kyiv

Debris from Russian cruise missiles injured children.

On the morning of 21 September, the Russian army launched a new massive attack on Ukraine. During the air alert in Kyiv, when air defence systems were on, debris fell in four neighbourhoods of the capital. At least seven people were wounded.

This was reported on the Telegram of the military administration of the city of Kyiv. Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said of the explosion in the Darnytsya district.

"All services are on their way to the scene. The Holosiivsky district is also on alert," the mayor wrote.

He also said that electricity and water supplies had been cut in some parts of the Svyatoshinsky district. Emergency services are working.

The head of the KMVA, Serhiy Popko, said that air defence systems had shot down enemy targets, but that debris had fallen in the Holosiivski and Darnytski districts of the capital. The debris caused preliminary damage to a gas pipeline in the Shevchenko area.

"All emergency services are on their way to the sites. Information about victims and destruction is being clarified. Stay in shelters until the air alert is cancelled," said the KMVA message.

According to Klitschko, there is no fire caused by debris falling on the gas pipeline in the Shevchenko district. The gas supply is on the spot. In the Darnytski area, non-residential buildings were damaged and a fire broke out. Emergency services are working on the scene. So far there is no information about the victims.

"There is an appeal to medical professionals," the mayor of the capital added, specifying that there was no destruction and no victims in the Holosiivsky area. Klitschko adds that medics took an 18-year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl to hospital in the Darnytski district. They were in a house near the infrastructure object on which the debris fell. "The launch of enemy missiles caused debris to fall in the Holosiivsky, Darnytski, Shevchenko and Desnyanka areas. In the Shevchenko neighbourhood, there was damage to a gas pipeline, but no fire for the moment. In the Darnytski neighbourhood, non-residential buildings and parked cars were damaged by debris. There are fires, emergency services are working. The number of victims and the amount of damage are being determined," Popko said.

According to the capital's mayor, rescuers are extinguishing the fire at the petrol station in the Darnytski area.

"Two cars are also on fire. The windows of a nearby two-storey house have been smashed," Klitschko wrote.

He added that the vocational school had also been hit. Students were in the shelter and there were no casualties among them, the mayor said.

KMVA showed a photo of the impact of falling debris in the Darnytski neighbourhood.

Later, Klitschko said that seven people were known to have died in the Darnytski district. Three of them (including a 9-year-old girl) were taken to hospital, while four others received medical assistance at the scene.

The mayor also said that power had been restored to the Svyatoshinsky area.

The KMVA reported that the Russians had preliminarily fired Kh-101/555/55 cruise missiles at Kyiv from about 10 Tu-95MS strategic aviation aircraft. More than 20 enemy targets were destroyed by air defence forces and means over the capital.

"The alarm in Kyiv lasted for more than two hours. The capital has already exceeded 1,000 hours of alarms since the beginning of the full-scale invasion!"

Klitschko added that in the Holosiivsky area, in a central part of the capital, the windows of a 5-storey house were damaged. There is no destruction and no casualties.

In Darnitsky area, according to the mayor, all services are still working at the site of the debris fall on the territory of the infrastructure facility, as well as on the territory of the petrol station and the hostel of the institution of vocational education.