Ukrainian authorities describe Russia’s missile and drone assault as ‘large’, with a number of areas of Kyiv hit.
Revealed On 28 Aug 2025
An in a single day Russian drone and missile assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has killed not less than 4 folks and wounded greater than 20 others, officers stated.
Highly effective explosions rocked town into the early hours of Thursday morning, illuminating the sky and forsaking columns of smoke as Russian projectiles broken and destroyed buildings in a number of districts of town.
The assault was the primary main mixed Russian drone and missile assault to strike Kyiv since United States President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this month to debate ending the battle in Ukraine.
Tymur Tkachenko, the pinnacle of Kyiv’s metropolis army administration, stated a 14-year-old lady was amongst these reported killed, citing preliminary info.
A five-storey residential constructing within the metropolis’s Darnytskyi district was hit instantly. “All the pieces is destroyed,” Tkachenko stated.
“Tonight, Kyiv is beneath large assault by the Russian terrorist state,” he stated.
Native media outlet The Kyiv Unbiased stated not less than 4 folks had been confirmed killed, and officers anticipate the variety of casualties to rise.
One other strike in central Kyiv left a serious street strewn with shattered glass, and rescue groups had been working to drag folks trapped beneath rubble from some 20 affected places throughout town.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko additionally known as it a “large assault” by Russia, including that two kids had been additionally among the many injured.
Officers supplied information organisations with a protracted checklist of buildings that had suffered harm, together with a number of high-rise condo blocks, and pictures and video posted on-line confirmed residences ablaze and smoke billowing from buildings.
The assault comes amid so-far failed efforts by President Trump to persuade Putin to stop his battle on Ukraine, and as each Moscow and Kyiv commerce blame over a diplomatic deadlock in efforts to finish the combating.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Wednesday that members of his administration would meet with US officers in New York on Friday.
The Ukrainian chief stated he noticed “very smug and unfavourable indicators from Moscow” relating to negotiations to finish the battle, urging additional “stress” to “drive Russia to take actual steps” to stop combating.
