Russian national, her daughter injured in morning’s shelling of Kyiv, husband dead

Yekaterina Volkova, a Russian citizen, and her daughter Yevgeniya, 7, were injured by this morning’s Russian shelling of Ukraine’s capital; Yekaterina’s husband Alexey was killed as the shell hit a 9-storey residential building, ASTRA says.

The woman and her daughter were rescued from the rubble, an Interior Ministry official Anton Herashchenko reported earlier; he later added that the woman was a Russian citizen. Pictures of her damaged Russian passport are being shared on social media.

“The body of a man with no signs of life, possibly the girl’s father, was also dragged out from the rubble,” he said.

ASTRA got in touch with Volkova’s relatives. One of them said she had moved to Kyiv not long ago and worked for a travel agency there. “She left Kyiv as the full-scale invasion began and took the child with her; Alexey stayed. He refused to get out of town as he couldn’t leave his relatives alone. Yekaterina and her daughter returned home not a week ago, as she texted me,” Volkova’s close relative said.

A missile hit a 9-storey residential building in the Ukrainian capital, killing a man and injuring six; several storeys collapsed as the fire spread, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said earlier.