(29 Aug 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 29 August 2025
1. Wide of people looking at residential building destroyed by Russian missiles
2. Rescue workers inside destroyed building
3. People laying flowers and children’s toys at memorial site beside building
4. Various of people crying
5. Closeup of children’s toys
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Iryna Drebizhova, 37, Kyiv resident:
"We heard sounds, explosions, rockets, Shaheds were flying all over Kyiv until three in the morning. We didn’t have time to get up when there was a blow, a very strong blow, then another blow, and another blow, and another blow. Then it was quiet and after 10 minutes very strong blows began again. God forbid that they don’t hear the blows that we hear. God forbid that America never hears our children suffering and dying, and that this scoundrel (Putin) gets it all back."
7. Wide of destroyed residential building
8. Mid of rescue worker cleaning debris
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Svitlana Vodolaha, head of communications of Ukrainian State Emergency Service:
"Today at 9:40, emergency search and rescue operations at this building were completed. Emergency recovery operations are currently underway. What this means is that we are no longer looking for anyone. Unfortunately, 22 people died in this building, 4 of whom are children. Among these dead, there are four more bodies that are unidentified, that is, neither we nor the police know who it is."
10. Mid of rescue workers handing out helmets for people to enter their apartments
11. Mid of woman searching in her things
12. Wide of destroyed residential building
STORYLINE:
Residents gathered outside a Kyiv residential building on Friday to commemorate the 22 people who died there, including four children, according to the State Emergency Service, in Russia’s latest air assault on the Ukrainian capital.
"Today at 9:40 (local time), emergency search and rescue operations at this building were completed," said the State Emergency Service’s head of communications, Svitlana Vodolaha, confirming the number of victims.
37-year-old Iryna Drebizhova lives nearby and came with her family to pay tribute to those killed in the attack, as an impromptu memorial sprung up with flowers and children’s soft toys.
"We heard sounds, explosions, rockets, Shaheds were flying all over Kyiv until three in the morning," she said of Wednesday into Thursday night.
"We didn’t have time to get up when there was a blow, a very strong blow, then another blow, and another blow, and another blow. Then it was quiet and after 10 minutes very strong blows began again," she said.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 598 strike drones and decoys and 31 missiles of different types across the country early Thursday, most of them striking targets in Kyiv.
At least 33 locations across all 10 of the city’s districts were directly hit or damaged by debris, officials said.
The attack was one of the few times Russian drones and missiles have penetrated the heart of Kyiv since the start of the full-scale invasion.
European defense ministers pledged Friday to ramp up support for Ukraine and increase pressure on Russia, a day after the air assault that killed at least 23 people overall and badly damaged a European diplomatic compound.
Outrage over the attack propelled Europe’s leaders to condemn Russia even before Friday’s meeting and call for tougher measures on Moscow like seizing frozen assets, further sanctions and increasing support for Ukraine’s military and membership in the European Union.
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