Ukrainian air force command said Russian forces launched a combined strike on Kyiv and Kyiv region overnight on August 8, firing six missiles and 151 drones, of which Ukrainian air defense shot down 135.
In the village of Pukhivka in the Brovary district of Kyiv region, a private residential house burned down, killing three people, including a four-year-old child, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Three more people, including another child, were injured. A fire also broke out at a warehouse of an industrial enterprise in the same village.
In Kyiv, two districts came under attack. Garages caught fire in Holosiivskyi district, and fuel tanks at an enterprise in Obolonskyi district. Four people were injured, three of them hospitalized, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration.
In Chernihiv region, a warehouse in Pryluky district caught fire after a drone strike; no casualties were reported. In Dnipropetrovsk region, drones attacked six districts, damaging residential buildings, cars, infrastructure and warehouses, including grain storage, according to regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha.
Russia's Defense Ministry said the strikes targeted a military industry enterprise and a fuel and lubricants warehouse in Kyiv, naming the Fire Point company and the Grandterminal LLC warehouse as the targets.
This was the second Russian attack on Kyiv and the region within a week: on August 5, strikes hit marketplaces and logistics centers, killing 17 people.