Russian overnight attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv kills at least 3, wounds dozens

The mayor of the Ukrainian capital, who claims that at the end of the first four years of Russia’s war on Ukraine, reports that at least three people have died and dozens have been hurt in an overnight Russian airstrike in Kyiv.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko proclaimed that “several” Russian drones were “over the city” on Sunday, and urged residents to “remain in shelters.”

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Three people died and 27 were injured (including six children), according to preliminary information, according to Klitschko’s post-Telegram entry, adding that some had been taken to the hospital.

He claimed that a nine-story residential complex in the northeastern Desnyansky district was flooded with drone fragments that sparked fires on several floors.

“The fire has already erupted,” the statement read. The construction is still being worked on, Klitschko said.

Another nine-floor block in the same district, where five people were saved, was damaged, he said, adding that “structure destruction is ongoing.”

An apartment was harmed when more drone fragments fell on a 16-story residential block in the northern Obolonsky district, according to Klitschko.

He continued, “No structural collapses or fires” are present.

Not immediately known the full extent of the attack’s size and extent. Before the air force called off the air raid alerts in Kyiv and the surrounding area around 00:30 GMT, the city was under one hour and a half of the day.

Both parties deny that their attacks on one another’s territory were aimed at civilians. However, despite the fact that the majority of the victims were Ukrainian, many of whom were civilians, were killed in the conflict that Russia started by staging a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

According to Ukrainian authorities, four other Russian drone and missile strikes killed two, two of them in Kyiv, and more than a dozen others in Ukraine the day after those attacks.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, downplayed the possibility of a summit with Vladimir Putin, saying he would “not be wasting]his] time.”

According to a Russian source with knowledge of the discussions, Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev met with Trump administration officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff. On Sunday, the discussions were scheduled to continue.

Russian energy was subject to new, extensive sanctions by the US and the European Union earlier this week to devastate Moscow’s war economy.