{"id":1382671,"date":"2026-04-16T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-number-of-victims-of-the-russian-strike-in-kyiv-has-doubled\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:34:49","slug":"the-number-of-victims-of-the-russian-strike-in-kyiv-has-doubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-number-of-victims-of-the-russian-strike-in-kyiv-has-doubled\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of victims of the Russian strike in Kyiv has doubled"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Kyiv, at least, the number of victims and injured people has increased sharply as a result of the Russian night strike on the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by the Kyiv City<\/span> Prosecutor’s Office<\/span><\/a> and the Metropolitan<\/span> Police<\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n

As of 8 a.m., four victims were known, including a 12-year-old child. Two people died in the Podilskyi district, and two more in Obolonskyi.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, according to updated information from the Kyiv police, the number of victims has increased to 56, including two children, three law enforcement officers, four medics, and two foreigners.<\/span><\/p>\n

In total, 17 high-rise buildings, 10 private homes, a hotel, an office center, a car dealership, a gas station, and a shopping mall were damaged in the city due to the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers are recording the consequences of the enemy strike on the capital. At the same time, under the procedural guidance of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office, a pre-trial investigation has been launched into the fact of committing a war crime that caused the death of a person – Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a reminder, on the night of Thursday, April 16, Russian occupation forces launched a missile strike on Kyiv<\/a> . There were deaths and injuries, and destruction and fires occurred in several areas of the city.<\/p>\n

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In Kyiv, at least, the number of victims and injured people has increased sharply as a result of the Russian night strike on the city. This was reported by the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office and the Metropolitan Police . As of 8 a.m., four victims were known, including a 12-year-old child. Two people died in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1382666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875,76928],"class_list":["post-1382671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-kyiv-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}