On the night of April 24th, following a massive attack, rescue teams extinguished around 40 fires in nine regions. One of the affected areas is Zhytomyr, where a firefighter was injured due to a secondary strike.
Source: Interior Minister Igor Klymenko on Telegram.
Minister's statement: "Rescue workers of the State Emergency Service dealt with about 40 fire outbreaks in nine regions. Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia were under heavy attack from Russia."
Kyiv suffered the most: rescuers worked at 13 locations. As of 7:30, 9 fatalities were reported as a result of the Russian strike, with over 70 individuals injured.
Details: According to Klymenko, the firefighting efforts continued under the threat of repeated shelling.
"In Zhytomyr, the enemy struck again at the State Emergency Service unit that had arrived to extinguish the fire, injuring a 39-year-old firefighter," Klymenko concluded.
Background:
- On the night of April 24, Ukraine faced a massive combined attack from Russian forces. Air defense systems were operational.
- In the capital, as of 6 AM, there were 9 fatalities and 63 injuries, including 6 children and a pregnant woman. Civil infrastructure was also hit. A rescue operation is ongoing in the Sviatoshyn district of Kyiv, searching for two children.
- In Kyiv region, 2 people were injured, with several residential 5-story buildings, stores, public transport stops, and vehicles damaged.
- As a result of the attack, two railway workers were injured: a conductor in Zhytomyr and an engineer in Kyiv, with damage reported to the railway's technical track and administrative buildings.