At least three people have been killed and 24 have been injured in the drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital overnight, local authorities said
A 14-year-old girl is among those killed in Ukraine following the latest attack from Russia.
A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital early Thursday morning killed at least three people and injured 24, local authorities said. Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s city administration confirmed the teenager’s death but the death toll is expcted to rise.
A five-story residential building in the Darnytskyi district was hit directly. “Everything is destroyed,” Tkachenko said. A strike in central Kyiv left a major road strewn with shattered glass.
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More than 20 locations in the captial were impacted by the attack overnight, local authorities said. Rescue teams rushed to the area to pull people trapped underneath the rubble to safety.
Thursday’s attack is the first major combined Russian mass drone and missile attack to strike Kyiv since U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this month to discuss ending the three-year war in Ukraine.
While a diplomatic push to end the war appeared to gain momentum shortly after that meeting, very few details have emerged about the next steps.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hoping for harsher U.S. sanctions to cripple the Russian economy if Putin does not demonstrate seriousness about ending the war.
It comes just days after Donald Trump said he has no intentions of sending US troops into Ukraine to figure out the peace deal. During a comprehensive Fox News interview, the US president made it abundantly clear that Ukraine would “not going to be a part of NATO” whilst maintaining that European forces, including British personnel, would be dispatched to ward off any future Russian hostility.
Earlier this week Russian President Vladimir Putin made a bold claim – he wants to build a “special” power station in space. The mad proclamation came while he was giving a talk to youngsters nuclear experts at the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre’s National Research Institute of Experimental Physics.
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