Smoke rises after a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 18, 2023.  REUTERS/Stringer
Ukraine

Missile attack hits Kyiv, one dead in Odesa

(Reuters) - One person was killed by a Russian missile strike on an industrial facility in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, while falling debris during an air raid triggered two fires in the eastern districts of Kyiv, officials said on Thursday.

Two more people were wounded in the Odesa attack, military administration spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk wrote on Telegram.

Police officer inspects remains of a Russian cruise missile shot down by Air Defence Forces, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 18, 2023.

Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko, writing on Telegram, said one fire had broken out in a garage facility in the Darnitsya region of the capital. Debris also fell in the Dnipro region of Kyiv. He said there were no casualties from either of the incidents.

Police officer inspects remains of a Russian cruise missile shot down by Air Defence Forces, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 18, 2023.

The head of Kyiv's military administration, Serhiy Popko, said on Telegram that a fire had broken out in non-residential premises in the Desnyansky district, just east of the capital. He provided no information on casualties.

Smoke rises after a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 18, 2023.

Popko said Kyiv had been attacked by cruise missiles and that all of them were downed by air defences.

People check their car at an area where landed remains of a Russian cruise missile shot down by Air Defence Forces, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 18, 2023.

(Reporting by Gleb Garanich and Ron Popeski; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Christian Schmollinger)

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