Rescue Teams Battle Nighttime Blazes from Attacks
On the night of April 24, rescue teams successfully extinguished around 40 fires in nine regions, triggered by a massive assault involving rockets and drones from enemy forces. A rescuer was injured in a repeat strike in the Zhytomyr region.
Source: Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko on Telegram
Direct quote from the minister: "This night, rescuers tackled around 40 fire outbreaks in 9 regions. Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia were targeted by Russia's combined strikes."
Kyiv suffered the most: rescuers worked at 13 sites. As of 7:30 AM, 9 fatalities have been reported in Kyiv due to the Russian attack, with over 70 injuries.
Klymenko stated that the recovery efforts continued under the threat of further strikes.
"In Zhytomyr, the enemy launched a repeated attack on a State Emergency Service unit that had arrived to extinguish a fire. A 39-year-old rescuer was injured," Klymenko concluded.
Background:
- On the night of April 24, Ukraine faced a massive combined assault from Russian forces. Air defense systems were active.
- By 6 AM in the capital, there were reports of 9 fatalities and 63 injuries, including 6 children and a pregnant woman. Civil infrastructure was also hit. In the morning, rescue operations continued in the Svyatoshyn district of Kyiv, where phone calls could still be heard from under the rubble, as teams searched for 2 children.
- In Kyiv region, 2 people were injured, and several residential five-story buildings, shops, public transport stops, and vehicles were damaged as a result of the Russian combined attack.
- As a result of the combined attacks from Russia, two railway workers were injured: a conductor in Zhytomyr and an engineer in Kyiv. Additionally, technical tracks and administrative buildings of the railway were damaged in Kyiv and Kharkiv.