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Russian drone hits apartment building in Kyiv, killing teenage girl

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Russian drone hits apartment building in Kyiv, killing teenage girl
A Russian drone struck a multi-story building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district on Oct. 25. (State Emergency Service / Telegram) 

Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated.

A Russian suicide drone hit a 25-story residential building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district on Oct. 25, killing a teenage girl and injuring five people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported.

The attack killed a 15-year-old girl, Klitschko said. Five others were injured, one of whom was hospitalized

According to Ukraine's Emergency Service, the attack damaged several apartments on the 17th, 18th, and 19th floors, and 100 people were evacuated from the building. Fire crews were dispatched to the site of the attack. A fire broke out on the upper floors of the building due to the strike.

An air alert sounded in Kyiv and several other oblasts of Ukraine around 9 p.m. local time due to a mass Russian drone attack, which has been a near-daily occurrence in Ukraine for over a month.

Some 30 minutes later, explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital.

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