Update: 2 dead, 8 injured in Russian missile attack in Kyiv.

Two civilians were killed in a Russian attack[1] on the capital on June 24 that caused a fire in a residential building, with eight more injured, Head of the Kyiv City Military Administration Serhiy Popko said[2]. Russia launched[3] more than 20 missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding oblast in its eighth attack on the capital this month, according to Popko.   Missile debris shot down by the city's air defenses fell onto a 24-story apartment building in Kyiv's central Solomyanskyi district, causing a fire to break out on the 16th, 17th, and 18th floors, the Kyiv City Military Administration reported[4] on Telegram.

At the time of publication, two people are known to have been killed and eight injured. Two of the victims were hospitalized and the rest received medical assistance at the site. Hours after the first missile attack that killed two people, air raid alerts went off in Kyiv for the second time on June 24.

Explosions were also reported in the cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv overnight on June 24.

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Rachel Amran is a news reporter at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked on the Europe and Central Asia team of Human Rights Watch investigating war crimes in Ukraine.

Rachel holds a master's degree in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Regional Studies from Columbia University.

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1. ^ attack (kyivindependent.com)
2. ^ said (t.me)
3. ^ launched (t.me)
4. ^ reported (t.me)
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