On the night of April 24, emergency services extinguished around 40 fires across nine regions caused by a massive Russian missile and drone attack. In the Zhytomyr region, a rescuer was injured by a second strike.

Source: Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko on Telegram

Direct quote from the minister: "This night, DSNS rescuers dealt with about 40 fire outbreaks in nine regions of the country. Kyiv and the region, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia were under a massive combined attack by Russia."

Kyiv suffered the most; rescuers operated at 13 locations. As of 7:30 AM, there were 9 confirmed deaths due to the Russian strike, with over 70 people injured.

Details: According to Klymenko, the firefighting efforts continued throughout the night amid the threat of further bombardments.

"In Zhytomyr, the enemy launched a repeated strike on the DSNS unit that arrived to extinguish the fire. A 39-year-old rescuer was injured," Klymenko summarized.

Background:

• On the night of April 24, Ukraine was under a massive combined attack from Russia. Air defenses were operational.
• In the capital, as of 6 AM, there were reports of 9 deaths and 63 injuries, including 6 children and a pregnant woman. Hits on civilian infrastructure were also reported. In the morning, phone calls could be heard from the rubble of a building destroyed by Russians in the Sviatoshyn district of Kyiv – a rescue operation is ongoing, searching for 2 children.
• In the Kyiv region, 2 people were injured, and several residential five-story buildings, shops, warehouses, public transport stops, and vehicles were damaged as a result of the Russian attack.
• As a result of the combined Russian attack on Ukraine, two railway workers were injured: a conductor in Zhytomyr and a driver in Kyiv. Also, as a result of shelling in Kyiv and Kharkiv, technical tracks and administrative buildings of the railway were damaged.