Kyiv High-Rise Hit: Interior Ministry Details How Missile Strike Deformed Entire Building
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A Russian missile strike in Kyiv’s Svyatoshynskyi district tore through a residential high-rise, causing upper floors to crumple downward and lower ones to buckle under the blast, leaving a vertical ruin of twisted concrete and shattered lives.
This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Igor Klymenko, reports RBC-Ukraine.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko revealed new details of the deadly Russian missile strike on a residential high-rise in Kyiv’s Svyatoshynskyi district. According to him, the explosion occurred around the 5th–6th floor, causing a structural collapse that claimed many lives.
“The explosion was so powerful that it pushed the upper floors upward and forced the lower floors downward. It all collapsed in an instant. That’s why there were so many victims — people who were in their apartments, in corridors, even those hiding between two walls,” Klymenko explained.
He confirmed that 28 people were killed in the attack, including three children.
Klymenko also noted that rescue operations had to pause for two hours after the body of a child was discovered, allowing rescuers to recover the remains with care and dignity. The last bodies found belonged to a woman and her two children, crushed by a concrete slab on the sixth floor.
As of now, all the victims have been identified.
As a reminder, on the night of Thursday, July 31, Russian forces carried out a combined attack on Kyiv, using missiles and drones. The strike resulted in significant destruction in several areas of the capital, with fatalities and dozens of injuries.
It later became known that the number of people killed in Kyiv as a result of the combined Russian attack on July 31 had increased to 31 people, with 156 injured.
By the way, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov said that the Russians are already modernizing their “Shaheds” so that they can more effectively avoid Ukrainian interceptor drones. He noted that the Russian military is already preparing to massively use jet drones, and is also implementing technologies that allow them to bypass Ukrainian interceptor drones.
In addition, a specialist in the field of electronic warfare and radio-electronic intelligence, Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov noted that Ukrainians began to hear a new eerie sound in the night sky — we are talking about jet versions of Shahed kamikaze drones, which Russia began to use in recent days. This was the enemy’s response to the successes of Ukrainian anti-aircraft drones. So far, the attacks are not massive, but the emergence of a new type of drone may change the nature of threats from the air in the coming months.
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