Two injured as enemy missile hits residential building in Kyiv

Two people were injured after an enemy missile struck a residential building in the Shevchenkivsky district of the Ukrainian capital early on Wednesday.

According to Ukrinform, the main directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv reported this on Facebook.

"On March 16, at 06:16, the Rescue Service 101 received a report of a collapse in a residential building in the Shevchenkivsky district. Firefighters from the nearby fire and rescue units immediately arrived at the scene. Upon arrival, it was established that as a result of shell fragments hitting a 12-storey residential building, there was a collapse on the 12th and technical floors of the building, and a neighboring 9-storey building was partially damaged," the statement said.

According to preliminary information from rescuers, two people were injured and 35 people were evacuated.

On March 15, a fire broke out after a shell hit a ten-storey residential building in the Vynohradar neighborhood in the Podilsky district of Kyiv.