Vitali Klitschko announced the latest figures in a TV interview on Sunday, Ukraine’s state Ukrinform news agency reported.
The Kyiv mayor said: “In our city, over 400 residential houses were destroyed and more than 170 civilians were killed."
Klitschko also said that the death toll included seven children, according to the Ukrainska Pravda website.
The Kyiv mayor told the TV interview: “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin needs territory. He doesn’t need us, Ukrainians. Thus, he kills civilians.”
On June 24, five people were killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv, when fragments of an intercepted missile hit a multi-storey building in the city’s Solomianskyi district, The New Voice of Ukraine website reported.
Klitschko’s statement came after the United Nations confirmed that 9,177 civilians had been killed and 15,993 injured in Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Monday is day 502 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, Ukrinform, Ukrainska Pravda, The New Voice of Ukraine