Shell blast damages housing block in northern Kyiv

Shell blast damages housing block in northern Kyiv

Shelling has badly damaged a 10-storey housing block in northwestern Kyiv, injuring five residents, the capital’s mayor Vitali Klitschko says.

Qazet.az reports that Russian forces in Irpin, a few kilometres away, have previously fired rockets and shells at housing in the city.

Reporters in the Svyatoshyn district saw that the block’s windows had been blown out, there was fire damage, several cars were incinerated and the blast had left a crater nearby.

In a video clip Mayor Klitschko said there was also a kindergarten nearby, and “thank God there are no fatalities”.