A minimum of 10 folks have been killed following a second evening of Russian strikes on Kyiv in every week, the capital’s prime navy administrator has stated.
Timur Tkachenko added that 46 folks had been injured, together with 5 youngsters.
Rescue efforts are persevering with at over 20 areas, Tkachenko posted on Telegram, including that residential high-rise buildings had been hit in two districts.
The strikes come on the eve of the Nato summit in Turkey, the place Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is anticipated to carry talks with President Trump.
Hours earlier than the newest strikes, Zelensky warned that Moscow was making ready a second “huge strike” on Kyiv following its assaults on Thursday that killed 30 folks.
Russian ballistic missiles hit a number of buildings throughout the town, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko stated, including that fires had damaged out in some condominium complexes.
Warehouses and a storage workshop had been additionally broken, based on the mayor.
Images rising from Kyiv present smouldering wreckage and charred vehicles littered all through the town. Footage additionally exhibits crews persevering with to comb via wreckage on Monday morning to search out survivors.
Zelensky stated on Sunday, hours forward of the strikes, that intelligence indicated that Kyiv would come beneath a second wave of Russian assaults in every week.
After a barrage of drone and missile strikes via Thursday evening, tens of hundreds of residents evacuated to metro stations across the metropolis as alarms blared within the early hours of Friday morning.
Ukraine accused Moscow of intentionally attacking civilian areas within the assault, which left at the least 30 folks useless. Russia stated it had focused navy and vitality bases in retaliation for latest Ukrainian strikes on energy stations and vitality amenities in Russian territory.
Such assaults continued in a single day with energy being minimize off briefly within the metropolis of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Forward of the Nato assembly, Zelensky urged allies to not delay on provides of long-range missiles for use towards Russia.
He wrote on X: “Any delay with missiles for our air protection… means the lack of lives, and it encourages Russia to proceed the struggle.”
Zelensky has additionally appealed to the US to grant Ukraine licences to fabricate Patriot defence missiles.
