A fire broke out in a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv as a result of a shell fragments hit, 5 people were injured.
The State Emergency Service (SESU) has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
On March 20, at 1:59 p.m., the Rescue Service received a message about a fire in a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital.
Firefighters immediately arrived at the scene.
"Upon arrival, the rescuers found that as a result of the shell fragments hit, a fire broke out on the balcony of the 4th floor of a 10-story residential building and 2 private cars. At 2:24 p.m., the fire was localized and at 2:41 p.m., it was eliminated,” reads the statement.
7 units of fire equipment and 25 personnel are involved at the scene.
Residents are being evacuated from the building.
Currently, 6 people have been evacuated.
The mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko said that at the moment there are no killed.
At the same time, 5 people were injured, 2 of them were hospitalized.
As Ukrainian News Agency reported, on March 18, one person was killed, four more were injured and 12 were rescued due to missile remnants hit a residential building in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv.
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