Kyiv\u2019s mayor says the attacks hit Podilskyi and Obolonsky districts, causing large fires and damage to residential buildings.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 16 Apr 2026<\/span>16 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Russian forces have bombed the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing a 12-year-old child and wounding at least 10 people, including several medics, according to the city\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n The child was killed early on Thursday in Kyiv\u2019s Podilskyi district, where rocket fragments hit a 16-storey building and caused a fire at a residential building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cAs a result \u2060of the enemy attack, a 12-year-old child has been killed,\u201d Klitschko wrote. \u201cAt the moment, 10 people are injured. That includes several medics.\u201d<\/p>\n He said rescuers have pulled another child and her mother from the rubble in Podilskyi.<\/p>\n The attack also hit Kyiv\u2019s Obolonsky district, with falling rocket debris causing a large fire at a non-residential building. \u201cCars are also on fire,\u201d Klitschko wrote.<\/p>\n Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, meanwhile warned civilians in the capital to shelter until a missile alert was lifted.<\/p>\n A separate attack on the central city of Dnipro wounded another 10 people, including a 40-year-old woman hospitalised \u201cin a serious condition\u201d, according to Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional administration.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in Ukraine, a drone strike on the northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded a 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, while an attack on the southern port city of Odessa wounded five people, officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kyiv\u2019s mayor says the attacks hit Podilskyi and Obolonsky districts, causing large fires and damage to residential buildings. Published On 16 Apr 202616 Apr 2026 Russian forces have bombed the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing a 12-year-old child and wounding at least 10 people, including several medics, according to the city\u2019s mayor. The child was killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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