Russia launches deadly missile and drone attacks on Kyiv | Ukraine
Russia hit Ukraine’s Kiev region with ballistic missiles on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, officials said on the eve of a NATO summit in Türkiye.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said rescue teams were pulling residents out of buildings shattered by the dam that rained overnight.
Authorities announced that 7 people died in Kiev and 1 person died in the Bucha region, northwest of the capital, and at least 34 people were injured in Kiev and its surroundings.
Timur Tkachenko, head of the military administration of the Kiev region, said missiles and drones hit apartment blocks and other buildings on Monday.
“The enemy is attacking with ballistic missiles,” Tkachenko said in Telegram.
Klitschko stated that air defense systems were active and called on people to stay in shelters.
US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy are expected to discuss the war on the sidelines of the NATO summit in the Turkish capital Ankara, which begins on Tuesday.
The attack was the second on the capital and its surroundings in less than a week, and came as both sides stepped up long-range attacks; This underlined the increasing scope of the war, more than four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Ukraine has increasingly targeted energy facilities in Russia, and particularly Moscow-controlled areas, in recent weeks in an attempt to weaken the Kremlin’s war effort.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the governor of Crimea annexed by Russia, said that the attack carried out by Ukraine near Sevastopol temporarily cut off the electricity supply.
“After the enemy attack on the energy infrastructure near Sevastopol, our city was temporarily left without electricity,” Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the state-backed messaging application Max that several drones heading to the Russian capital were shot down by Russian air defenses.
Zelenskyy said on Sunday that troops continued to fight for the strategic eastern town of Kostyantynivka, a gateway to key Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk region.
Moscow said on Friday that the police station had been captured, but Kiev rejected that announcement as a “lie”, saying it was defending the town.
“The fight continues for Kostyantynivka, which Putin (Russian leader Vladimir) claims as his own, but it is clear that he will never dare to appear there,” Zelenskyy said in his daily evening speech. he said.
With Reuters and Agence France-Presse
