<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Russian missile strikes damaged a hospital and residential building in the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday, injuring at least 45 people, the city’s mayor said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>An AFP journalist in the city heard several explosions, with air raid sirens sounded soon after that.</div><div><br></div><div>“In total, 45 people were injured in Dniprovsky district as a result of the enemy attack. 18 of them were hospitalized, including 2 children. 27 received medical help on the spot, including three children,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on social media.</div><div><br></div><div>Eighteen of the injured, including two children, were hospitalized.</div><div>He said “a missile fell on the territory of one of the capital’s hospitals” during the night attack, resulting in windows being “blown out in several buildings of the facility.”</div><div><br></div><div>One person was injured at the hospital, according to the mayor.</div><div>Police at the scene were “inspecting the crater on the territory of the medical facility,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Klitschko also said that “as a result of the enemy’s night missile attack (on) the capital’s Dniprovsky district, an apartment building was damaged.”</div><div>Several residents were evacuated.</div><div><br></div><div>Klitschko said missile debris that fell on a road damaged the district’s water supply network.</div><div><br></div><div>It is the second strike on Kyiv in a week and came after a long period of calm in the capital that was broken by an attack on Sunday.</div><div><br></div><div>The Kyiv City Military Administration said the number of missiles fired had yet to be clarified by the airforce, but “as a result of the air defense work on downing the missiles, debris fell in three left-bank districts of the city.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Same as on December 11, the enemy used ballistic weapons,” the military administration said, adding: “The enemy is intensifying the missile terror of Kyiv.”</div><div><br></div><div>Air defenses downed a missile in Kyiv on September 21. The falling debris wounded seven people, including a child. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>