KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian airstrike in the capital’s downtown area Monday killed one person and wounded six others, Ukrainian officials say.
The Ukrainian Emergency Services says the airstrike took place near a checkpoint and caused extensive damage to a residential neighborhood.
Kateryna Lot says she was in her apartment with a child who was doing homework online when they heard a loud explosion.
“Our windows and the balcony were shattered, part of the floor fell down,” Lot says. “It was very, very scary.”
She says they ran to a shelter after the explosion.
Ukrainian authorities also said two people died and seven were injured after Russian forces struck an airplane factory in Kyiv, and that two people were killed in the northern Obolonskyi district of the capital when Russian artillery fire hit a nine-story apartment building.
The United Nations has recorded at least 596 civilian deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, though it believes the true toll is much higher.
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