American citizen killed in Russian attack on Kyiv, State Department confirms

An American national was among the 15 killed successful Russian drone and rocket strikes connected the Ukrainian superior city, Kyiv, connected Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed successful a property league Wednesday.

In effect to a reporter’s question connected U.S. diplomats successful Kyiv having to walk the nighttime successful a bunker, Bruce said "we tin corroborate the decease of a U.S. national successful Ukraine."

"We are alert of past night’s onslaught connected Kyiv that resulted successful galore casualties, including the tragic decease of a U.S. citizen," she said, noting, "We condemn those strikes and widen our deepest condolences to the victims and to the families of each those affected."

Bruce did not connection immoderate much details connected the individuality of the national killed by the Russian strikes, citing "respect to the household during this evidently horrible time."

UKRAINE DESTROYS DOZENS OF RUSSIAN WARPLANES WITH DRONE ATTACK DEEP INSIDE RUSSIA

Left: U.S. State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce. Right: Explosion is seen aft Russian aerial onslaught connected Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Friday, June 6, 2025. (State Department and Evgeniy Maloletka)

She noted that "the president successful the caller past has made his thoughts wide astir striking civilian areas successful that regard" and reiterated that "the thread passim each of the enactment that we bash is the section has nary higher precedence than the information and information of U.S. citizens abroad."

She added that the State Department "stand[s] acceptable to supply each imaginable consular assistance."

The AP reported that 15 radical were killed and 156 wounded successful a Russian bombardment of Kyiv that lasted astir 9 hours. According to the outlet, Russia fired implicit 440 drones and 32 missiles, making it the deadliest onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior this year.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted connected X that six different Ukrainian regions — Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad and Mykolai — were besides deed during the attacks.

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Local residents locomotion among the debris adjacent a damaged house, a time aft a Russian onslaught connected a suburb of Odesa, confederate Ukraine connected March 7, 2025, amid the Russian penetration of Ukraine. (OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

This comes arsenic satellite leaders converge connected Canada for the G7 Summit. President Donald Trump attended the archetypal time of the acme but near aboriginal to woody with the increasing Iran-Israel conflict.

Trump slammed erstwhile President Barack Obama and erstwhile Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for their 2014 "very large mistake" erstwhile Russia was removed from the G8 summit, which Trump argued would person prevented further warfare from breaking retired betwixt Russia and Ukraine. 

"The G7 utilized to beryllium the G8. Barack Obama and a idiosyncratic named Trudeau didn't privation to person Russia in," Trump said Monday from Canada, wherever the G7 acme is being held, portion joined by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. 

"I would accidental that that was a mistake due to the fact that I deliberation you wouldn't person a warfare close present if you had Russia. And you wouldn't person a warfare close present if Trump were president 4 years ago," Trump continued. "But it didn't enactment retired that way. But it utilized to beryllium the G8." 

WHITE HOUSE TAKES INTEREST IN PROPOSED RUSSIAN SANCTIONS AS UKRAINE WAR PEACE TALKS DRAG ON

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures arsenic Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy looks connected on the time they conscionable astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2025.  (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)

The White House is successful ongoing discussions with Capitol Hill to amend a projected sanctions measure targeting Russia, and prefers that way implicit sanctions led by the enforcement branch. 

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Now, with Trump progressively skeptical of Vladimir Putin’s intentions to extremity the war, the measure could soon travel to the floor. According to 3 sources acquainted with the matter, talks betwixt lawmakers and the White House are active, though nary steadfast timeline has been set.

Trump has pushed for bid talks betwixt Ukraine and Russia, which person truthful acold not yielded an extremity to the three-year conflict, and has begun to sour connected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reluctance to find a peaceful extremity to the ongoing conflict. He precocious questioned "what the hellhole happened" to the Russian leader.

Fox News Digital's Alex Miller, Emma Colton and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.