Russian attacks on Ukraine kill at least 6 and injure over a dozen

A Russian drone and rocket onslaught connected Ukraine's superior has killed astatine slightest 5 radical and injured others arsenic rescuers searched a collapsed flat gathering for survivors

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, arsenic rescue workers and firefighters sought to region radical they believed trapped nether debris successful a partially collapsed flat building.

Elsewhere successful Ukraine, different idiosyncratic was killed and 8 injured successful the metropolis of Bila Tserkva, astir 85 kilometers (53 miles) southwest of the capital.

The strikes came astir a week aft a combined Russian attack 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.

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.

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