Rescue workers end rescue operations in Kyiv after massive rocket attack

Editor’s note: This article was updated after the city authorities reported that 34 people were killed in the attack.

Search and rescue operations in connection with Russia’s massive missile attack on July 8 have been completed in Kyiv, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service said on the morning of July 10.

Russian forces launched a missile attack on the capital on July 8, killing more than 30 people and injuring 121. One Russian missile hit the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital directly.

Shortly after the rescue operations were completed, city authorities announced that the death toll from the attack had risen to 34.

According to publicly available information, this is more than the 33 civilians killed in the attack on the capital on December 29. Mayor Vitali Klitschko described the attack as the deadliest attack on Kyiv since the start of the large-scale invasion.

The spokesman for the city’s military administration told the Kyiv Independent that they could not currently confirm that the July 8 attack was the deadliest since the invasion began.

“These were tragic, tense and exhausting days,” the state emergency service said on Telegram.

“Rescue workers and dozens of pieces of equipment were working non-stop to clear the rubble and try to save every life.”

In total, rescue workers rescued eleven people after the attack.

Among the victims of the attack in Kiev were five children. Among the injured were ten children.

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