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On the night of April 24, rescuers successfully extinguished around 40 fire outbreaks across 9 regions of Ukraine, resulting from a massive attack by Russia using rockets and drones. In the Zhytomyr region, one rescuer was injured due to a subsequent strike.

Source: Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klymenko on Telegram

Direct quote from the minister: "This night, the State Emergency Service firefighters worked to extinguish 40 fire centers in nine regions. Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, and Zaporizhia were under a massive attack from Russia."

Kyiv suffered the most, with rescuers working at 13 locations. As of 7:30 AM, 9 fatalities were reported in Kyiv due to the Russian strike, and over 70 people sustained injuries.

Details: According to Klymenko, the emergency response efforts continued under the threat of further shelling.

"In Zhytomyr, the enemy carried out a secondary strike on a State Emergency Service unit that arrived to extinguish the fire. A 39-year-old rescuer was injured," Klymenko summarized.

Background:

• On the night of April 24, Ukraine was under a massive combined attack from Russia. The air defense system was operational.
• In the capital, by 6 AM, 9 fatalities and 63 injuries were reported, including 6 children and a pregnant woman. Strikes on civilian infrastructure were also recorded. In the morning, phone calls could be heard from under the rubble of a building destroyed by Russians in the Sviatoshyn district of Kyiv – the rescue operation is ongoing, searching for 2 children.
• In Kyiv region, 2 people were injured, and several 5-story residential buildings, shops, warehouses, public transport stops, and vehicles were damaged as a result of the Russian combined attack.
• As a result of the combined attack, two railway workers were injured: a conductor in Zhytomyr and an engineer in Kyiv; also, due to shelling, railway technical tracks and administrative buildings were damaged in Kyiv and Kharkiv.