In Kyiv, 20 people were killed and another 61 injured in a missile attack on the morning of July 8, the State Emergency Service reported.
UPD: At 4:33 p.m., the State Emergency Service reported that the death toll in Kyiv had risen to 21. Another 65 people were injured, and seven people were rescued.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko clarified that 96 people have been injured in Kyiv, including three children. 52 wounded were hospitalized. Others were given help on the spot.
There are two dead in "Okhmatdyt", both adults, in particular, one female doctor died. The mayor of Lviv Andrii Sadovyi said that Svitlana Lukyanchuk — a 30-year-old woman from Lviv — was killed. She worked at the hospital as a pediatric nephrologist.
Damage to civil infrastructure was recorded in 7 districts of the capital:
- in the Shevchenkivsky district of Kyiv, the "Okhmadyt" childrenʼs hospital was damaged, there is destruction;
- in the Holosiivsky district, a kindergarten building and a residential building were damaged, cars were on fire;
- in the Solomyansky district, an office building was damaged;
- in the Dniprovsky district, burning debris in a residential building;
- in the Darnytsky district, a private house was damaged;
- in the Sviatoshynsky district, debris is burning near a residential building; a fire also broke out in the premises of one of the enterprises;
- in the Desnyansky district, a house was occupied.
In the Dniprovsky district, debris fell on a medical center, Mayor Klitschko added. Seven people are known to have died there.
Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko said on the air of a national telethon that the Russians struck the toxicology department of the “Okhmatdyt” Childrenʼs Hospital, where seriously ill children were on dialysis.
Specialists and necessary services work on the ground. Demolition of rubble in "Okhmatdyt" is ongoing.
DTEK informs that in Kyiv, three transformer substations in Holosiivsky and Shevchenkivsky districts were completely destroyed or damaged. Electricity grids were also damaged.
Due to the fact of the attack on Kyiv, the prosecutorʼs office opened a case of violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder.