Today, #Kyiv and the surrounding region came under another large-scale attack: volunteers of the Ukrainian Red Cross are supporting response and recovery efforts at the affected locations

In Kyiv, the emergency response team of the National Committee of the Ukrainian Red Cross worked at five locations. They provided first aid and psychological first aid. Together with first responders from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES), older people were evacuated from a damaged residential care home, including individuals with limited mobility.

A Ukrainian Red Cross assistance point has been set up in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district. Affected people, residents of damaged buildings, and emergency responders involved in the response to the attack can receive hot drinks and essential support there.

According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, one person was killed and 27 people were injured, including two children, as a result of a large-scale, combined Russian attack on the capital.

The Kyiv regional emergency response team, together with the SES of the Kyiv region, remained on standby during the attack. Volunteers also deployed to the site of a strike on a residential building in a village in the Vyshhorod district, where psychological first aid was provided to two affected people.

In Bila Tserkva, volunteers from the emergency response team are working at the site of the strike. According to the SES, one person has been killed there. Overall, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, damage to more than ten civilian facilities has been recorded across the Kyiv region.

Emergency rescue operations are ongoing at the sites of impacts and falling debris in various districts of Kyiv and the surrounding region.

Plans are currently underway to set up warming centres, where local residents will be able to warm up, have hot drinks, and charge their devices.