Artillery shell hit high-rise building in Obolonsky district of Kyiv, building partially destroyed - Gerashchenko

09:42, 14.03.2022 1 min read

As a result of artillery shell hitting a multi-storey building in Obolonsky district of Kyiv on Monday morning, the building was partially destroyed, no one was previously injured, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko said.

"On March 14, at 05:09 in Obolonsky district at 20 Bohatyrska Street, there was a partial destruction from the 1st to the 3rd floors and a fire in the apartments on the 3rd and 4th floors as a result of an artillery shell hitting a nine-story residential building. Preliminarily there were no victims," Gerashchenko said in a Telegram message on Monday.

Some 33 people and eight units of the State Emergency Service were involved.