- Title: Russian cruise missile leaves huge crater in Kyiv residential area
- Date: 31st December 2022
- Summary: KYIV, UKRAINE (DECEMBER 31, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HUGE CRATER CREATED BY MISSILE, FRAGMENTS (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MARINA, 59, LOCAL RESIDENT SAYING: "It's New Year's Eve, I was preparing festive salads, food. Thank God I was standing next to the sink, away from the window. I heard the sound of the rocket and saw it landing. All windows in the house shattered. Absolutely all, there is not a single, intact window left in the whole house." FRAGMENTS OF SHELL IN CRATER DESTROYED HOUSE POLICE TAPE CRATER (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MARINA, 59, LOCAL RESIDENT SAYING: "There are no roofs on any of the buildings nearby. Our house has no roof, either. My son lives nearby, I was worried about him so I ran there. Other people came there as well to look at the crater. I am in such a state of shock not that I do not even know what to say." VARIOUS OF MARINA LOOKING AT SHATTERED WINDOWS VARIOUS OF SHATTERED WINDOWS IN HOUSES NEAR THE EXPLOSION SITE (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) KRISTINA, 31, LOCAL RESIDENT SAYING: "We heard the explosion over the building in the next street. Everything shook, the doors opened. My mother-in-law came 20 minutes later and said the rocket landed in the yard. My husband went there to look, I stayed at home with our daughter." MAN CARRYING BUCKET OF BROKEN GLASS MAN STANDING NEAR CRATER MAN THROWING BROKEN GLASS INTO CRATER CRATER, GLASS, RUBBLE
- Embargoed: 14th January 2023 16:29
- Keywords: Kyiv Ukraine missile attack residentila building yard
- Location: KYIV, UKRAINE
- City: KYIV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001972431122022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles at targets in Ukraine on Saturday (December 31) killing at least one person in the capital Kyiv and injuring more than a dozen in what one official described as "terror on New Year's Eve".
One of the missiles that landed in Kyiv's Holosiivskiy district near the city's Zhulyany airport turned a residential neighbourhood's yard into a huge crater, destroyed homes and shattered windows in buildings around the site.
" I am in such a state of shock not that I do not even know what to say, " said one woman who had been preparing food for the New Year's Eve celebrations at the time of the explosion.
Russia has been attacking vital infrastructure in Ukraine since October with barrages of missile and drones, causing sweeping power blackouts and other outages for millions of people as the cold weather bites.
Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets described the attack as "Terror on New Year's Eve".
Other cities across Ukraine also came under fire. In the southern region of Mykolaiv, local governor Vitaliy Kim said on television that six people had been wounded.
In the western city of Khmelnytskyi, two people were wounded in a drone attack, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.
The official also reported a strike in the southern industrial city of Zaporizhzhia, which Tymoshenko said had damaged residential buildings.
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