A minimum of 9 individuals have been killed and a number of other injured in an in a single day Russian missile and drone assault within the Kyiv area, the inside minister has mentioned.
In a publish on social media, Ihor Klymenko mentioned residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructure had been hit.
A minimum of six of those that died have been in a high-rise constructing within the capital, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned. Town’s army administration mentioned an additional 33 individuals had been injured.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is travelling to London on Monday for talks with PM Keir Starmer on UK army help for Ukraine.
Within the newest barrage 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles focused Ukrainian territory, largely within the Kyiv space, the Ukrainian air pressure mentioned.
Russia has intensified its air assaults towards Ukrainian cities in current 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 towards.
Many 1000’s of Kyiv residents have been compelled into the shelters within the early hours of Monday morning as drones flew overhead and explosions shook town.
Ukraine’s emergencies service shared footage exhibiting shocked residents being led away from a destroyed high-rise constructing that was nonetheless burning.
Together with these killed within the capital, one individual reportedly died after a drone struck a hospital within the metropolis of Bila Tserkva to the south.
Talking to 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 mentioned.
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 greatest on the capital for the reason that begin of Russia’s full-scale struggle which started in February 2022.
Diplomatic efforts to finish the three-year struggle 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 useless.
No new talks have been scheduled.
Zelensky had been as a result of meet Donald Trump on the aspect strains 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.
The Ukrainian chief is because of attend a dinner throughout a Nato summit within the Netherlands that begins on Tuesday.
