On the night of June 17, Kyiv suffered a massive combined strike from Russia, resulting in at least 18 people being injured. The attack caused numerous fires and damage to buildings in various parts of the city, including the destruction of a dormitory at the Kyiv Aviation Institute.
An air raid alert was declared in the capital on June 16 at 21:14 due to the threat of drone attacks. The first series of explosions occurred at midnight. At 00:26, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, reported the fall of a “Shahed” drone in the Solomianskyi district, but without any subsequent fire.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko noted that air defense forces were actively working. As of 2:30 a.m., the consequences of the attack were recorded at 12 locations in the Solomianskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, Podilskyi, and Obolonskyi districts of the capital.
By 2:40 a.m., 16 people were reported injured as a result of the attack. The highest number of casualties was recorded in the Solomianskyi district, with residents of the Dniprovskyi and Darnytskyi districts also receiving medical assistance, Klitschko said.
Later, the mayor added that during the attack in the Solomianskyi district, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen died. This occurred near a building where medics were providing aid to other victims. Doctors confirmed biological death.
As a result of the massive strike, according to acting rector of the Kyiv Aviation Institute Ksenia Semenova, the institute’s dormitories were damaged. She reported that the strike drones hit the 10th dormitory, and in three other dormitories, the blast wave damaged windows.