Russian strike damages Kyiv maternity hospital during a birth; two killed across the capital
A Russian attack on Kyiv overnight and into the day on September 24 damaged the Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 2 on Mostytska Street, where a baby boy was born at 2:05 during the strike. Patients and staff were unhurt because they had taken shelter. Across the broader attack, two people were killed and eight injured, with warehouses, a Nova Poshta branch, a garage cooperative, and an administrative building hit.
Key points
- The strike damaged Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 2 on Mostytska Street.
- A baby boy was born in the hospital at 2:05 during the attack.
- No patients or staff at the hospital were injured because they were sheltering in the building's shelter.
- The hospital sustained partial damage to windows and doors on floors 1 through 5 on the parking side, as well as in the laundry and boiler rooms, and continues to operate.
- Across Kyiv, two people were killed and eight injured in the Russian shelling.
- Warehouses, a Nova Poshta branch, an administrative building, and a garage cooperative in the Obolonskyi district were damaged or destroyed.
- Tetiana Mostepan, director of the Kyiv City State Administration's Department of Health, reported on the birth and the hospital's status.
Why it matters
A maternity hospital — a protected civilian facility — was hit while a birth was taking place inside, an emblematic moment of civilian life going on during the war. The fact that patients and staff escaped harm only because they had reached the building's shelter underscores how routine such sheltering has become in Kyiv. The broader toll of the attack, two killed and eight injured, along with damage to civilian logistics infrastructure including a Nova Poshta branch and warehouses, shows the wide civilian cost of the strikes on the capital.
What happened
A Russian attack struck Kyiv during the night of September 24 and continued into the day, damaging several civilian sites across the capital. The most prominent hit was the Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 2 on Mostytska Street, where a baby boy was born at 2:05 during the strike. Patients and staff at the hospital were uninjured because they had moved into the building's shelter. The building itself sustained partial damage — windows and doors on floors 1 through 5 on the parking side, and windows in the laundry and boiler rooms — but the hospital continued to operate and provide medical care. Tetiana Mostepan, director of the Kyiv City State Administration's Department of Health, was the named source for that information.
Elsewhere in Kyiv, the Russian shelling killed two people and injured eight. Warehouses, a Nova Poshta branch, and an administrative building were damaged or destroyed. In the Obolonskyi district, drone debris fell on a garage cooperative, destroying at least 16 garage bays and setting cars on fire; one person was injured there. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service (ДСНС). The Kyiv City Military Administration had reported a drone threat during the afternoon.