Ukraine Inside Minister Ihor Klymenko, proper, examines the location of a missile strike that ruined a residential constructing throughout Russia’s huge missile and drone air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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KYIV, Ukraine — One of many largest Russian assaults in months killed at the very least 15 folks, principally in Ukraine’s capital, injuring practically 100 and severely damaging a number of condo buildings. Rescue staff are digging via the rubble for survivors.
The assault lasted for greater than 9 hours in a single day. Amid the fixed crackle of Kyiv’s air defenses, NPR’s bureau heard the moped-like buzzing sound of drones for hours, and, briefly, a missile’s whistling screech.
Different elements of Ukraine had been additionally hit, together with the areas of Odesa within the south, Zaporizhzhia within the southeast, Zhytomyr within the west and Chernihiv within the north.
A Russian drone assaults a constructing throughout Russia’s huge missile and drone air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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In a put up on Telegram, Ukraine’s air power stated Russia launched 280 assault drones and two Kinzhal ballistic missiles, with most aimed toward Kyiv.
In current weeks, Russia has been sending swarms of drones to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses after which following up with ballistic missiles, that are tougher to shoot down. Kyiv residents heard explosions all through the evening as Ukraine’s air protection models shot down many of the aerial weapons.
Because the solar rose in Kyiv, the air smelled burnt as thick plumes of smoke rose from elements of the town.
On social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as it “one of the vital horrifying strikes on Kyiv.”
Rescue staff evacuate an injured man from a multi-story residential home destroyed by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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Not less than a dozen websites had been struck, a lot of them residential buildings, together with a direct hit by a ballistic missile on a nine-story condo constructing, Inside Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram.
Movies and images posted by Ukrainian authorities confirmed a part of a high-rise condo advanced collapsed into rubble. Emergency staff try to tug survivors from the ruins.
Kyiv’s mayor, Vitalii Klitschko, wrote on social media that the dying toll might rise and {that a} 62-year-old American citizen was additionally discovered useless, although it isn’t clear if he was killed in the course of the strike. Klitschko additionally stated that emergency staff have discovered cluster munitions, which may pose a long-term hazard to civilians after they do not explode on affect.
The assault got here as Zelenskyy ready for the G7 summit in Canada, the place he’s pushing for stronger sanctions on Russia.
A father cries as his son is beneath the rubble of a multi-story residential home destroyed by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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The Trump administration’s efforts to begin peace negotiations have failed to date. Russia has refused to comply with an unconditional ceasefire to pave the best way for peace talks and has as an alternative stepped up assaults on Ukrainian cities.
Zelenskyy was scheduled to satisfy Trump on the sidelines of the G7 however Trump left the summit early as Israel and Iran commerce assaults.
“Such assaults are pure terrorism,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media about Russia’s in a single day assault. “And the entire world, the USA and Europe should lastly react the best way a civilized society reacts to terrorists.”
