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According to reports, at least 18 people died in the capital, where densely populated residential areas suffered heavy damage and several neighborhoods had to be evacuated.
“Search and rescue operations are underway rescue people trapped under rubble collapsed residential buildings, including a 15 year old girl and her family,” said Matthias Schmale, the top UN aid official in Ukraine.
In his statement condemning the violence, Schmale stated this many of Kyiv’s three million residents spent up to 11 hours in bomb shelters or sheltering at home “hearing the fearful sounds of war.”
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres added his strongest condemnation of the attack.
In addition to the deaths in Kyiv, nearly 90 people were injured, including several children, in what the mayor described as “the biggest attack yet”, while national media reported apartment blocks and a hotel were set on fire.
The medics attack
Among those injured were several health workers and ambulance drivers after an ambulance station was hit and several vehicles damaged.
Almost every part of the capital suffered damage, Schmale explained, with many houses, hotels, markets and other civic facilities destroyed or damaged.
Between December 2025 and May 2026, civilian casualties improved by 40 percent compared to the same period the previous yearaccording to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
Deadly pattern
“Civilians in Kyiv and throughout the country should not prepare for another attack; they are protected under international humanitarian law,” stressed Schmale.
He noted that recent attacks on densely populated areas across Ukraine are part of a “continued deadly pattern”, while in Russia and the Ukrainian-occupied region of Crimea, a growing number of drone strikes attributed in media reports to Ukrainian forces have caused major disruption to oil facilities and closed Moscow airports.
Across Ukraine, aid organizations are providing emergency aid to nearly one million people affected by the Russian offensive, whose full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022.
This critical assistance includes first aid, shelter, protection, cash assistance, and mental health support – widespread but largely invisible consequences of war.
“The harm and fear caused by this and other attacks has only made matters worse psychological trauma countless people have had to endure,” Mr. Schmale said. “The longer the war lasts, the deeper these invisible scars become.”
Secretary General António Guterres strongly condemned last night’s attack and reiterated his attack calls for immediate de-escalation, leading to a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
“Any attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, wherever they occur, are a clear violation of international humanitarian law and must stop immediately.”
‘Another night of horror for the family’
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) was also deeply saddened by reports of a seven-year-old girl killed in the Dnipro region on Thursday.
Talk to UN News after visiting some of the affected locations, UNICEF Head of Communications and Advocacy Toby Fricker described the extensive damage he witnessed to residential buildings and a nearby kindergarten.
Fricker said that “spending the night in shelters during the war in Ukraine had a serious impact on children’s well-being.” Many families have no shelter nearby and have to travel or seek safer places such as metro stations, which has become a normal but abnormal part of life after years of war.
