Black holes in walls and destroyed balconies: What a 9-story building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district looks like after a Russian drone attack

In the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv, a multi-story residential building sustained severe damage as a result of an attack by Russia. A correspondent from RBC-Ukraine visited the scene and recorded the condition of the building after the strike. According to available data, the nine-story building was hit by an enemy drone in the morning, with the heaviest destruction occurring on the second through seventh floors.

Attack progress and nature of damage

As seen in published photographs and video recordings, a large hole formed in the wall breached by the drone — described in publication materials as a 'black hole.' A fire broke out in one of the apartments at the site of the breach, where rescue workers were operating at the time of filming. The damage affected not only the interior of the building but also its facade: all balconies of the building were damaged, and some were completely destroyed.

Condition of the building and neighboring houses

In addition to direct destruction, the blast wave and debris shattered windows not only in the building hit by the drone but also in the building opposite. Thus, the aftermath of the attack affected several residential buildings in the area at once, and the overall picture of damage — from holes in the walls to collapsed balconies — indicates the high power of the strike on residential areas.

Position of Kyiv authorities

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that a fire broke out on the third through sixth floors as a result of the attack. According to him, structural destruction was recorded at the level of the fifth floor. These data align with what journalists recorded at the scene: it is on the middle and upper floors of the nine-story building that the damage appears most critical.

Context of the night massive attack

The strike on the Solomianskyi district was part of a broader nighttime attack. Earlier, according to RBC-Ukraine, Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv and various types of drones across regions of Ukraine at night. Zhytomyr region was also under massive attack: there, according to reports, the enemy attacked six communities of the region at once, with infrastructure, energy facilities, and ordinary residential buildings coming under fire.