Russian drones hit Kyiv medical buildings, injure five

Russian drones hit medical facilities in Kyiv's Solomianskyi and Holosiivskyi districts on Tuesday afternoon, with debris also reaching a market and homes elsewhere in the city, the Kyiv City Military Administration said. Five people were injured in the afternoon attack by 5pm local time, and the raid was still under way, officials said.

In Solomianskyi, a drone struck the upper floor of a medical building, partially destroying its roof, mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Emergency crews were sent to the site. In Holosiivskyi, falling debris hit the upper floors of another medical facility; two people were treated at the scene, Klitschko said.

Debris also fell near homes in Holosiivskyi and onto railway tracks in Solomianskyi, though no fire broke out on the tracks, Klitschko said. In the Desnianskyi district, a drone came down on open ground near a green space, with no casualties reported. The military administration said debris struck a market in the Obolonskyi district, and officials were still checking for possible casualties there.

Unofficial Telegram channels had earlier reported a strike near Kyiv's North Bridge, but the city council said the bridge itself was not hit. Police still needed to document the aftermath of an attack nearby, the Kyiv City State Administration said, warning that traffic and some bus routes across the bridge could be delayed.

The daytime raid followed two other, separate deadly drone strikes earlier on Tuesday. Klitschko said one person was killed and seven injured, five of them hospitalised, when a drone hit near a petrol station in Holosiivskyi, close to the boundary with Kyiv region. Regional prosecutors said three people were killed and four injured in a separate strike near the Kyiv-Odesa highway in the suburb of Chabany, where cars caught fire near a shopping centre.

In Kyiv region's Bucha district, two people suffered burns in a drone strike that set a truck and pallets alight at a logistics site, regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said. Ukraine's Ukrinform news agency put the toll for Kyiv city since midnight at one dead and 18 injured, as strikes on energy facilities also partly cut off power to four districts of the capital.