Firemen managed to contain the fire, which broke out in the Kyiv City Mental Hospital at 13.06 on Tuesday.

According to the capital’s Emergency Ministry department, by preliminary information, the fire broke out at the ground floor of the fourth corps of the hospital’s children department.

Due to thick smoke, 22 children were evacuated from the second and third floors of the hospital.

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At present, fire brigades are working to extinguish the fire.