The Russian forces launched a large missile attack and Drone A Kiev at the beginning of Thursday, killing at least nine people in the city and injuring more than 60, said the Ukrainian authorities, in the most fatal strike in the Ukrainian capital since last summer.
The explosions could be listened to all night; Clouds of brown smoke rose to the city as the sun stood. A missile hit a two -story building with eight apartments where emergency operators kicked out for the survivors on Thursday morning.
A five -storey building next to it has lost all the windows. People remained out, fixing the damage and speaking on their phones, saying to their loved ones that they were alive. No military goal was visible nearby.
A spokesman for the emergency service, Vodolaha's Svitlana, told journalists at 8:30 local time: “Right now we dug another person. Live!”
The president Volodymyr Zelensky from Ukraine said that almost 70 missiles, including the ballistic ones, and 150 attack drones had targeted city throughout the country, although Kiev was the most difficult success.
“It is extremely important that everyone around the world see and understand what is really happening,” said Zelensky in a post on social media, adding that he would make a short visit to South Africa and return to Ukraine after meeting the South African president.
The attack on Kiev was one of the most fatal of the war and the worst since last July, when Russian missiles killed 41 people in Ukraine, destroying a pediatric hospital in Kiev and killing 21 people throughout the city. Recent mortal missile shots have also targeted the cities of Sumy and Kryvyi Rih.
He arrives in a crucial moment in the war, which began with the invasion on the vast scale of Russia in February 2022. On Easter, a temporary respite called by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia seemed more than a feat of public relations that a real ceased the fire along the first place, but there were still no drones or missile attacks on Ukrainian city. Last Wednesday, the peace talks planned in London were downgraded, especially because the United States decided not to participate.
Since it came into office in January, the Trump administration has echoed the Cremlin discussion points in war and Ukraine, an inversion of the previous United States policy.
During last week, the Trump administration repeatedly threatened to get away from the peace process. And on Wednesday, President Trump and his best assistants asked Kyiv to accept an American designed plan that apparently would have granted Russia all the territory he gained at war, while offering Kyiv only vague guarantees on the future security of the country.
So far, Mr. Zelensky has rejected such an agreement.
Andrew E. Kramer Reports contributed by Kharkiv, Ukraine and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn From Kyiv, Ukraine.