During an air attack by russian ballistic missiles on January 18, the oldest McDonald's in the country near the Lukyanivska subway station in Kyiv was damaged.
The company's press service reported this on the social network X.
"Today [January 18], during an air attack on Kyiv, the McDonald's restaurant near the Lukyanivska subway station, which has been operating since 1997 and is the first restaurant of our chain in Ukraine, was damaged. Our employees managed to evacuate to shelters in time thanks to safety protocols," the company said in a statement.
The restaurant has stopped working, but McDonald's noted that it has already begun to eliminate the consequences of the shelling and promised "definitely restore the restaurant on Lukyanivka."
The first McDonald's restaurant in Ukraine was opened in 1997.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, as of Saturday morning, January 18, it was confirmed that two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles were shot down in the Kyiv Region and 24 Shahed attack UAVs and drones of other types were shot down in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Donetsk Regions.
Today, the russian federation launched 61 drones over Ukraine, 43 of which were shot down, the Air Force said.
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