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Russian missile kills child, injures three in Vyshhorod, Kyiv region

A missile strike destroyed a home in Vyshhorod overnight, killing a child and injuring three more people, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

By ECTV Crisis DeskEditor-in-chief: Erik FerdinandPublished 4 independent sources · 98% confidence
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A massive Russian missile and drone attack on the Kyiv region in the early hours of Wednesday killed a child and injured three other people in the town of Vyshhorod, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. A missile struck a private home in the town, destroying it, the service said.

Emergency workers combing through the rubble of the destroyed house found the body of a child born in 2012, the State Emergency Service said. The child could not be saved despite the search-and-rescue effort. Three other people were injured in the same strike, including a child, the service said. None of those killed or hurt in Vyshhorod has been publicly identified.

A second private home and an outbuilding in Vyshhorod also caught fire during the attack, according to the service. Eight garages were destroyed by the blaze, and officials said they were still working out how many vehicles in the town had been damaged.

The same overnight barrage also hit Kyiv itself, killing two people and injuring four more in the capital, the State Emergency Service said. Fires and structural damage were reported in four separate districts of the city.

In the Sviatoshynskyi district, about ten private homes were damaged, the service said. In the Podilskyi district, a non-residential building and a warehouse were damaged, and a two-storey private home caught fire.

Further fires broke out at a bathhouse, a site trailer and a concrete mixer in the Holosiivskyi district during the same attack. Grass also burned in an open area of the Solomianskyi district, the State Emergency Service said.

What we know

  • A Russian missile struck a private home in Vyshhorod, Kyiv region, overnight, killing a child born in 2012.
  • Three other people were injured in Vyshhorod, including a child, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said.
  • Eight garages were destroyed and a second home and outbuilding caught fire in the town.
  • A separate overnight strike on Kyiv killed two people and injured four, with fires reported in four districts of the capital.

Not yet confirmed

  • The number of vehicles damaged in Vyshhorod, which officials were still assessing.

Why it matters for Europe

The strike in Vyshhorod, on the northern edge of the Kyiv region, showed that Russian missiles and drones are still reaching residential streets well away from the front line. The State Emergency Service's account of the same night shows the scale of a single barrage: two people killed and six injured across two separate strikes, homes destroyed or damaged in five different locations, and fires reported in four districts of the capital alone. For families in Vyshhorod and in the Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi, Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi districts of Kyiv, the attack meant a night of fires, search-and-rescue work and, in Vyshhorod, the loss of a child. It shows that residential areas of the capital region, not only front-line towns, remain within range of Russian missiles and drones.

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Questions and answers

What happened in Vyshhorod?
A Russian missile hit a private home in Vyshhorod, Kyiv region, overnight on 30 September, killing a child and destroying the house, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service.
How many people were hurt?
Three people were injured in Vyshhorod, including a child, while a separate strike on Kyiv killed two people and injured four more, the emergency service said.
Where else was hit that night?
Fires and damage were reported in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi, Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi districts, according to the State Emergency Service.

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