play Live Sign upShow navigation menuplay Live Click here to searchsearchSign upBREAKINGBREAKING, News|Russia-Ukraine warRussian attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv kills 12-year-old child, wounds 10Kyiv’s mayor says the attacks hit Podilskyi and Obolonsky districts, causing large fires and damage to residential buildings.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoBy Al Jazeera StaffPublished On 16 Apr 202616 Apr 2026Russian forces have bombed the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killing a 12-year-old child and wounding at least 10 people, including several doctors, according to the city’s mayor.
The child was killed early on Thursday in Kyiv’s Podilskyi district, where rocket fragments hit a 16-storey building and caused a fire at a residential building, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko wrote in a post on Telegram.
He said rescuers have pulled another child and her mother were pulled from the rubble in Podilskyi.
The attack also hit Kyiv’s Obolonsky district, with falling rocket debris causing a large fire at a non-residential building. “Cars are also on fire,” Klitschko wrote.
