Kyiv resident helps emergency crews resuscitate cat following Russian airstrike – video
A woman holds her cat while she speaks on a mobile phone near her apartment building, hit by a Russian drone strike, September 9, 2026 (Photo: REUTERS)
A man joined rescuers in Kyiv to help save a cat pulled from a building damaged in a Russian attack on September 9, the State Emergency Service reported, posting a video of the incident.
The footage shows the civilian helping rescuers revive the animal.
“In moments like these, it makes no difference whether the pet is your own or someone else's. Every life is precious. That is the very essence of Ukrainians: while Russians destroy our homes, we unite and save one another,” the State Emergency Service wrote.
Russian forces struck a 24-story residential apartment building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district earlier that day. The drone directly hit the high-rise between the 11th and 12th floors, sparking a structural fire on the 12th floor and destroying load-bearing walls and wounding five people – two of whom have been hospitalized.
Russian strikes across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi districts ignited two cargo trucks, a garage, and a two-story non-residential building overnight on September 9. Emergency crews managed to extinguish all the fires caused by the attack.
Russian forces deployed Oniks missiles, Iskander and KN-23 ballistic missiles, S-400 anti-air missiles in surface-attack mode, Kh-101 cruise missiles, and 166 drones. Missiles and drones hit 29 locations, with debris from shot-down targets causing damage at nine additional sites nationwide.
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