The death toll from the Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of 30-31 July has risen to 31, including 5 children. Another 159 people have been injured, including 16 children.

The death toll from the Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of 30-31 July has risen to 31, including 5 children. Another 159 people have been injured, including 16 children.

Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs; Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, during the national joint 24/7 newscast; Tymur Tkachenko, Head of Kyiv City Military Administration; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram

Quote: “Emergency workers have retrieved 10 bodies from under the rubble of a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district overnight and in the morning, including the body of a two-year-old child.”

Updated: At 08:00, Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, reported that another body had been found under the rubble of the building.

“Twenty-seven people have now been killed. We’ve just received information that emergency workers have pulled another person from under the rubble in the Sviatoshynskyi district,” he said.

At 08:34, Tymur Tkachenko, Head of Kyiv City Military Administration, reported that the death toll had risen to 28.

At 10:39, Tkachenko said that 31 people had been killed in the Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of 30-31 July.

President Zelenskyy reported that five children had been killed, with the youngest being only two years old.

 *Emergency workers carry a body.*Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Details: Khorunzhyi predicts that the death toll from this Russian strike may still rise. As of now, emergency workers have cleared 70% of the destroyed structures of the building.

 *Emergency workers carry a body.*Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine

The rescue operation is ongoing.

Background:

On the night of 30-31 July, Russian forces attacked the city of Kyiv with drones and missiles.Twenty-seven locations across four districts of the capital were affected by the attack.Six-year-old Matvii Marchenko was killed in the Russian attack on Kyiv. He was a student of a Kyiv karate club. It was also reported that Liliia Stepanchuk, a patrol police officer, was one of those killed in Russia’s overnight missile strike on Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district.In addition, Hromadske journalist Nataliia Mazina and her husband Dmytro Mazin were injured in the drone strike on Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district. Their apartment was damaged.

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