A 15-year-old girl died in a Kyiv apartment on the night of October 25, 2024, when a Russian drone slammed into the building she was in. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported her death, the Kyiv Independent said.
Sirens had gone off at about 9 p.m. in the capital and several other regions, as they had nearly every evening for more than a month. Roughly half an hour passed before blasts were heard in Kyiv. The weapon, a suicide drone, struck a 25-story residential tower in the Solomianskyi district.
Fire on the upper floors
Ukraine’s Emergency Service said apartments on three floors, the 17th through the 19th, were damaged and that flames broke out high in the building. Crews were sent in. In all, 100 people were evacuated.
The count of the wounded kept climbing. Early reports spoke of two people hurt, then four. Klitschko put it at five, one of whom went to hospital. The Kyiv Military Administration, quoted by RBC-Ukraine, later raised that to six and said the damage reached from the 17th floor up to the 21st. A fire had started in an apartment on the 20th floor, and the person who died was found there by rescuers. RBC-Ukraine called her a young woman.
A long night in the capital
The administration counted it as the 16th Russian assault on the city that month. Drones arrived in several waves from the south and the northeast, and the alert was declared three times between evening and morning, 7.5 hours in total. Air defenses spotted and downed about ten that threatened the city.
Sources
- Russian drone hits multi-story residential building in Kyiv (Kyiv Independent)
- Kyiv drone strike: Casualties climb as 6 injured (RBC-Ukraine)
