Around 10:40 p.m. on 13 October ballistic missiles struck Kyiv: Zelensky said CHP-4 was the main target, and prosecutors report four killed and 27 injured.
On the evening of 13 October, at around 10:40 p.m., ballistic missiles struck Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the main target was energy infrastructure, in particular CHP-4. According to the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, by the morning of 14 October four people had been killed and 27 injured, including a seven-year-old girl. Volunteers Support Ukraine offers its condolences to the families of the dead; the final figures may still change.
In the Desnianskyi district a missile hit a nine-story residential building: fire spread through apartments from the first to the eighth floor, and rescuers freed 16 residents. In the Holosiivskyi district one person was killed in a non-residential building. According to prosecutors, three of the dead were in the Desnianskyi district. A disused building in the Dniprovskyi district also caught fire, and there was a small blaze in the Shevchenkivskyi district.
Zelensky said Ukraine's system detected the missiles practically as they approached Kyiv, and that no warning from Western partners had come for the second night in a row. According to him, Ukraine supported the "energy ceasefire" while russia struck yet another power plant and people's lives. Presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn said the military and intelligence services are looking into why the alerts were missing. Zelensky added that, according to intelligence, more ballistic attacks are being prepared.
It was not the first strike on the capital in recent days: the evening before, Kyivans had already sheltered from ballistic missiles, and residents gathered near damaged buildings.
Volunteers Support Ukraine continues to help people affected by the war with the aid it has available.
