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Girls look at an apartment block in the Podilskyi district damaged by a massive Russian combined attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, April 16, 2026. On Thursday night, Russian forces struck the capital with kamikaze drones as well as cruise and ballistic missiles. The attack killed five people, including a 12-year-old boy, and injured at least 60, among them three police officers and four medics. In total, 17 multi-storey apartment blocks, 10 private houses, a hotel, an office building, a car dealership, a petrol station, and a shopping mall were damaged. According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Podilskyi, Obolonskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Desnianskyi districts suffered the most damage.