{"id":586928,"date":"2026-04-16T02:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:45:14","slug":"russian-attack-on-ukraines-kyiv-kills-12-year-old-child-wounds-10-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586928\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian attack on Ukraine\u2019s Kyiv kills 12-year-old child, wounds 10 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyiv\u2019s mayor says the attacks hit Podilskyi and Obolonsky districts, causing large fires and damage to residential buildings.<\/p>\n

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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

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\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyiv\u2019s mayor says the attacks hit Podilskyi and Obolonsky districts, causing large fires and damage to residential buildings.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,1076,451,3,1206,963,452,453,1208],"class_list":["post-586928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-europe","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}