Russian forces struck several Ukrainian regions overnight on June 2 with missiles and drones, hitting the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions.
Four people were killed in Kyiv, city Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. Another 63 were injured, at least 40 of them hospitalized, including three children ages 3, 11, and 17.
Damage was reported across the Darnytskyi, Obolonskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Solomianskyi districts.
- In the Shevchenkivskyi district, debris struck a 24-story residential building and sparked a fire.
- In the Podilskyi district, a rocket hit a nine-story residential building for the second time, partially collapsing its structure, according to preliminary reports.
- In the Solomianskyi district, debris struck the upper floors of a 15-story residential building, and fires broke out on the seventh and eighth floors of a 24-story building.
Eight people were killed in Dnipro, the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, reported. Among those pulled from the rubble was the body of a child born in 2023. One of the dead was a rescue worker who responded to the scene and was killed in a second strike, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported. At least 36 more people were injured, several of them in serious condition.
Residential buildings, an industrial facility, and a fire and rescue station were damaged. People may still be trapped beneath the rubble of a four-story residential building, and a search and rescue operation is underway.
In Kamianske, northwest of Dnipro, the strike damaged an administrative building and apartment buildings. Three people were injured and taken to the hospital in moderate condition.
In Kharkiv, 14 people were injured, including a child, according to preliminary reports from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
The Sumy and Zaporizhzhia regions were also struck, with residential buildings damaged. In the Zaporizhzhia region, at least three people were injured; Sumy reported no casualties.
Volodymyr Zelensky warned several times in recent days that Russia is preparing a massive strike on Ukraine. Most recently, on June 1 in his evening address. “Intelligence warnings about Russian strikes remain in effect. A massive strike is possible — they have prepared it,” he said.
On June 1, Vladimir Putin, for his part, held a meeting on Ukraine’s strike on Starobilsk, attended by Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan and Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin. The Russian president said that with the strike on Starobilsk, Ukraine had decided to “open a new chapter in its string of crimes” and “give the conflict as a whole a new character.”
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