Russian attack kills 10 at Ukraine defence event, almost 100 injured

A Russian ⁠ballistic missile strike on Friday in Ukraine’s Kyiv region killed 10 people and injured almost 100 others at a site where a defence ‌industry event was being held, Ukrainian officials and industry representatives said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, who did not name the exact target, said that efforts to determine what happened were under way.

“A rescue operation is currently under way in the Kyiv ⁠region following a Russian missile strike,” Zelensky said on Telegram.

Acting ‌governor of Kyiv region Ruslan Oliynyk said that according to preliminary information, a ballistic missile ‌strike hit a private training ground where events were ⁠taking place.

The ⁠Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry – which describes itself as the country’s largest association of private defence manufacturers – said that a missile strike hit a ‌site where representatives of Ukraine’s defence industry were present.

It said it ‌was not ‌an organiser of the event.