Evening ballistic missile strike on Kyiv: hits in Dniprovskyi and Darnytskyi districts, six injured
Place: KyivRegion: Kyiv and Kyiv regionautomatic summary
Where the versions diverge
Russian agencies report explosions and a damaged petrol station in Kyiv citing Ukrainian sources, but do not say Russia carried out the strike and do not mention casualties. Ukrainian sources call it a Russian ballistic strike and list the damaged sites and the injured. The BBC and Suspilne link the strike to Moscow's statement on readiness for talks made the same day. Only DW gives the number and types of missiles, citing preliminary data.
What Russia reports
automatic summary RIA Novosti, citing Suspilne's Telegram channel, reports that explosions rang out in Kyiv on Wednesday evening during an air raid alert, with alerts declared in most regions of Ukraine. TASS, in short reports, writes about explosions in Kyiv and then that a petrol station was damaged in the city and at least eight explosions were heard on the left bank of the Dnipro. The reports do not say what the strike was carried out with or whether anyone was hurt.
“Взрывы прогремели в Киеве вечером в среду на фоне воздушной тревоги”
“В Киеве повреждена АЗС”
“на левом берегу Днепра произошло как минимум восемь взрывов во время воздушной тревоги”
- В Киеве прогремели взрывы — RIA Novosti, 21 October, 21:16
- В Киеве повреждена АЗС — TASS (tass.ru, RSS), 21 October, 21:53
- В Киеве произошли взрывы — TASS (tass.ru, RSS), 21 October, 21:21
What Ukraine reports
automatic summary RBC-Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda and Suspilne, citing the Air Force, the Kyiv City Military Administration and Mayor Vitali Klitschko, write that Russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles. In Dniprovskyi district a car service building and a private house were hit, debris hit another house where people may be under the rubble, and a petrol station was damaged; Klitschko later reported a hit on the grounds of a transport infrastructure facility in Darnytskyi district. The number injured rose to six during the evening, four of whom were hospitalised. Suspilne puts the strike in the same headline as Ukraine's agreement to a trilateral meeting of teams.
“Київ під атакою балістики.”
“У Дніпровському районі влучання в будівлю СТО.”
“Кількість постраждалих зросла до шести.”
“Чотирьох поранених медики госпіталізували.”
- У Києві пролунали вибухи, Росія атакує столицю балістикою — RBC-Ukraine, 21 October, 21:22
- У Києві після ракетного удару є влучання в кількох районах: постраждали 6 людей — Ukrainska Pravda, 21 October, 23:09
- Балістичний удар по Києву: пошкоджено АЗС і приватні будинки, є постраждалі — RBC-Ukraine, 21 October, 21:42
- Україна погодилась на тристоронню зустріч команд, РФ вдарила по Києву ракетою — Suspilne, 21 October, 23:05
What independent sources report
automatic summary The BBC reports a new missile strike on Kyiv a few hours after Russia said it was ready "in principle" to resume peace talks and Trump said peace was "the closest" it had been: according to Klitschko, several houses were hit and six people injured. The outlet recalls that after trilateral talks were paused in February, Russia stepped up its strikes while Ukraine ran out of Western-supplied interceptors. DW, citing Klitschko, reports six injured, four of them hospitalised, and, citing preliminary data, puts the number of missiles at 10, including Iskander-M, Zircon and S-400. The Kyiv Independent quotes a resident who, together with neighbours, pulled a man and his wife out of a burning house.
“Several houses were hit on Wednesday night, injuring six people, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.”
“по городу было выпущено 10 ракет, в том числе Искандер-М, Циркон и С-400”
“Fortunately, we managed to rescue a man and his wife who were inside the burning house.”
- Missiles hit Kyiv after Russia agrees to US call to resume Ukraine peace talks — BBC News, 21 October, 17:56
- РФ ударила по Киеву баллистическими ракетами, есть пострадавшие — DW (RU), 22 October, 00:19
- Russian ballistic missiles rock Kyiv in late-night attack, injuring 6 — Kyiv Independent, 22 October, 00:22
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