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Kyiv, Ukraine - A Russian drone and rocket onslaught connected Ukraine's superior overnight killed astatine slightest 5 radical and injured others, according to Ukraine's exigency services. Emergency crews were inactive moving Monday greeting to rescue radical they believed to beryllium trapped nether the debris of 1 partially collapsed flat gathering successful Kyiv.
Elsewhere successful Ukraine, different idiosyncratic was killed and 8 injured successful the metropolis of Bila Tserkva, astir 53 miles southwest of the capital.
The strikes came astir a week aft a combined Russian onslaught connected Ukraine past Tuesday killed 28 radical successful Kyiv, 23 of them successful a residential gathering that collapsed aft sustaining a nonstop deed by a missile. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called that onslaught 1 of the biggest bombardments of the war, present successful its 4th year.
Firefighters proceed a hunt and rescue cognition successful Kyiv, Ukraine, June 23, 2025, aft astatine slightest 5 radical were killed successful a Russian onslaught that deed an flat building.
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In the aboriginal hours of Monday, drones and missiles deed residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure successful galore districts crossed Kyiv, exigency services said, with the astir terrible harm occurring successful the Shevchenkivskyi district, wherever 1 conception of a five-story flat gathering collapsed.
Five radical were confirmed dormant successful the onslaught connected the gathering portion 10 others, including a large woman, had been rescued from a adjacent high-rise that besides sustained dense harm successful the blast.
Dozens of vehicles, immoderate burned retired and others mangled by flying debris from the blast, formed a snarl successful the courtyard successful beforehand of the building, which had collapsed down to the 2nd floor.
Onlookers, immoderate wrapped successful blankets, watched tearfully arsenic the cleanup cognition took place. Dozens of volunteers worked to region breached glass, downed histrion branches and different debris.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told reporters from the country that "we precise overmuch anticipation that the decease toll volition not increase," but that rescue workers were inactive searching the collapsed gathering for further casualties.
President Trump is past known to person spoken with Russian person Vladimir Putin respective days earlier Moscow's erstwhile large onslaught connected Kyiv.
After that June 14 call, Mr. Trump said helium and Putin had spent astir of their clip discussing the ongoing Israeli strikes connected Iran, and "much little clip was spent talking astir Russia/Ukraine, but that volition beryllium for adjacent week."
That was earlier the U.S. joined Israel successful attacking Iran's atomic sites implicit the play — a determination by Mr. Trump that the Kremlin said connected Monday it "strongly condemns" and considers "irresponsible."
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Putin had nary plans to talk again with Mr. Trump successful the aftermath of the U.S. strikes connected Iran - a state that Moscow has progressively aligned with successful caller years – "but if necessary, specified contacts tin present beryllium organized rather quickly."
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