Drone strikes hit Kyiv residential areas despite peace moves
At least one person was killed and seven others were injured in a Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kiev, city officials said.
Residences in several districts were hit early Saturday morning and loud explosions were heard throughout the city.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said that a 13-year-old child was among the injured and four people were hospitalized.
Ukrainian officials said seven people were killed in a similar attack in Kiev earlier this week. The latest bombardment comes as Ukrainian negotiators prepare for talks this weekend with U.S. officials on a modified U.S. peace plan.
Timur Tkachenko, the head of Kiev’s military administration, confirmed that Saturday’s attack hit “multiple targets on the outskirts of the capital.”
“Enemy drones are over the city, air defenses are responding,” he wrote on Telegram.
“There is now a total of one dead and seven injured in Kiev, including one child.”
Tkachenko confirmed that the body of a man was found by rescue teams in the Sviatoshynskyi district in the west of the city.
Two women were among those injured in the town of Brovary, east of Kiev, and the regional governor said “missiles and drones” were targeting residential areas.
Klitschko said the strike started a fire on the lower floors of a high-rise apartment block west of the city centre, while another fire was brought under control in the central area.
Earlier this week, Russia and Ukraine carried out deadly attacks in Kiev, where apartment buildings were set on fire and seven people died; Russia’s Rostov region reported three deaths.
Saturday’s attack comes as President Donald Trump is pressuring the two sides to agree to a draft peace plan that initially catered heavily to Moscow’s demands. It was later revised during talks between Ukrainian and US negotiators in Geneva.
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday doubled down on his key demands for an end to the war, saying he would stop Russia’s offensive only if Ukrainian troops withdraw from territory claimed by Moscow.
Putin also confirmed that a US delegation, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, is expected in Moscow in the first half of next week to discuss the draft peace plan at the center of the negotiations.
Zelensky said in a video speech late Thursday that Ukrainian and U.S. delegations would meet “to transform the points we have secured in Geneva into a form that will put us on the path to peace and security guarantees.”
