Russian missile and drone attacks on the Kyiv region killed four people and injured 27 others within a day, including children. The police of Kyiv Oblast announced this on Facebook on Tuesday, 20 October, as reported by the news agency Ukrinform.
In the Bucha district, according to police, 199 private houses, 25 apartment buildings, cars, shops as well as warehouse and commercial properties were damaged, and one private house was destroyed. A woman died there, and 21 people were injured, including eight children. In the Obukhiv district, warehouses were damaged; three people died and six were injured. In the Vyshhorod district, warehouses, a residential building and vehicles suffered damage. Police, rescue services and other emergency services were deployed at the impact sites.
The attacks took place during the night into Tuesday. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia used 165 drones of various types against Ukraine that night, as Hromadske reports. By 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, 115 drones had been shot down or suppressed, including 73 jet drones. Hits were recorded at 30 locations, and at 13 further locations the debris of downed drones fell.
According to the Ukrainian civil protection service DSNS, cited by Hromadske, the attack in the Obukhiv district targeted a production and warehouse building in a community of the district. The fire has now been extinguished, and the rubble is still being searched. Already on 19 October, according to Ukrinform, the Russians had hit a production and warehouse building in a community of the Obukhiv district; at that time, three dead and six injured had been reported.
