At the least seven individuals have been killed and several other injured in an in a single day Russian missile and drone assault within the Kyiv area, the inside minister has stated.
In a put up on social media, Ihor Klymenko stated residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructure had been hit.
At the least six of those that died have been in a high-rise constructing within the capital, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko stated, including that 22 others had been injured within the metropolis.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is travelling to London on Monday for talks with PM Keir Starmer on UK navy help for Ukraine.
Within the newest barrage 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles focused Ukrainian territory, principally within the Kyiv space, the Ukrainian air pressure stated.
Russia has intensified its air assaults in opposition to Ukrainian cities in latest weeks, sending giant waves of missiles, drones and decoys designed to overwhelm Ukrainian air defences.
It’s a tactic that Ukrainian forces are struggling to defend in opposition to.
Many 1000’s of Kyiv residents have been compelled down the shelters within the early hours of Monday morning as drones flew overhead and impacts shook the town.
Ukraine’s emergencies service shared footage displaying shocked residents being led away from a destroyed high-rise constructing that was nonetheless burning.
Together with these killed within the capital, one particular person reportedly died after a drone struck a hospital within the metropolis of Bila Tserkva to the south.
Chatting with reporters this week within the capital, Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky vowed to step up Ukrainian strikes on Russia.
“We won’t simply sit in defence as a result of this brings nothing and finally results in the truth that we nonetheless retreat, lose individuals and territories,” he stated.
It comes because the capital continues to be reeling from overnight Russian attacks on Tuesday which left at least 28 people dead and greater than 100 injured.
The assault was among the many largest on the capital because the begin of Russia’s full-scale warfare which started in February 2022.
Diplomatic efforts to finish the three-year warfare have stalled. The final direct talks between the 2 sides completed virtually three weeks in the past with settlement solely on restricted exchanges of prisoners and the our bodies of the lifeless.
No new talks have been scheduled.
Zelensky had been as a consequence of meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 convention final week, however the assembly was cancelled after Trump left the convention early amid the escalating disaster within the Center East.
Zelensky is because of attend a dinner throughout a Nato summit in The Netherlands that begins on Tuesday.
