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KYIV, Ukraine -- A nighttime Russian rocket and drone bombardment of Ukraine killed 15 radical and injured 131 others portion they slept successful their homes, section officials said Tuesday, with the main barrage centering connected Kyiv.
At slightest 14 radical were killed arsenic explosions echoed crossed the Ukrainian superior for astir 9 hours during the night, Kyiv City Military Administration caput Tymur Tkachenko said. The bombardment demolished a nine-story residential building, destroying dozens of apartments.
Russia fired much than 440 drones and 32 missiles astatine Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, calling the Kyiv onslaught “one of the astir terrifying strikes" connected the capital.
Kyiv politician Vitalii Klitschko said 114 radical were injured and announced an authoritative time of mourning successful the metropolis connected Wednesday.
It was one of the deadliest attacks connected Kyiv successful caller months and came aft 2 rounds of direct bid talks failed to marque advancement connected ending the war, present successful its 4th year.
Russia has repeatedly deed civilian areas of Ukraine with missiles and drones. The attacks person killed much than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations. Russia says it strikes lone subject targets.
Russia has successful caller months stepped up its aerial attacks. It launched astir 500 drones astatine Ukraine connected June 10 successful the biggest overnight drone bombardment of the war. Russia besides pounded Kyiv connected April 24, sidesplitting astatine slightest 12 radical successful its deadliest battle connected the superior successful 8 months.
The intensified long-range strikes person coincided with a Russian summertime violative connected eastbound and northeastern sections of the astir 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) beforehand line, wherever Ukraine is short-handed and needs much subject enactment from its Western partners.
Uncertainty astir U.S. argumentation connected the warfare has fueled doubts astir however overmuch assistance Kyiv tin number on. Zelenskyy was acceptable to conscionable with U.S. President Donald Trump successful Canada connected Tuesday and property him for much help, but the White House announced Trump would instrumentality aboriginal to Washington connected Monday nighttime due to the fact that of tensions successful the Mideast.
Zelenskyy is trying to forestall Ukraine from being sidelined successful planetary diplomacy arsenic tensions escalate successful the Middle East and concerns stay implicit U.S. commercialized tariffs.
Trump said earlier this period it mightiness beryllium amended to fto Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” earlier pulling them isolated and pursuing peace, adjacent arsenic European leaders person urged him to unit Putin into accepting a ceasefire and compromising successful bid talks.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia’s attacks during the G7 acme showed Putin’s “total disrespect” for the U.S. and different countries.
“Russia not lone rejects a ceasefire oregon a leaders’ gathering to find solutions and extremity the war. It cynically strikes Ukraine’s superior portion pretending to question diplomatic solutions,” Sybiha wrote connected societal media.
Ukrainian forces person deed backmost against Russia with their ain domestically produced long-range drones.
The Russian subject said it downed 203 Ukrainian drones implicit 10 Russian regions betwixt Monday evening and Tuesday morning.
Russian civilian aviation bureau Rosaviatsia reported concisely halting flights overnight successful and retired of each 4 Moscow airports, arsenic good arsenic the airports successful the cities of Kaluga, Tambov and Nizhny Novgorod, arsenic a precaution.
The overnight Russian drone strikes, meanwhile, besides struck the confederate Ukrainian larboard metropolis of Odesa, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring 17 others, according to Oleh Kiper, caput of the determination administration.
Russian President Vladimir Putin "is doing this simply due to the fact that helium tin spend to proceed the war. He wants the warfare to spell on. It is troubling erstwhile the almighty of this satellite crook a unsighted oculus to it,” Zelenskyy said.
The Russian onslaught delivered “direct hits connected residential buildings," the Kyiv City Military Administration said successful a statement. "Rockets — from the precocious floors to the basement,” it said.
A U.S. national died successful the onslaught aft suffering shrapnel wounds, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko told reporters.
Thirty apartments were destroyed successful a azygous residential artifact aft it was struck by a ballistic missile, Klymenko said.
“We person 27 locations that were attacked by the enemy. We presently person implicit 2,000 radical moving there, rescuers, police, municipal services and doctors,” helium told reporters astatine the country of 1 of the attacks.
Olena Lapyshniak, 49, was shaken from the onslaught that astir leveled her flat building. She heard a whistling dependable and past 2 explosions that blew retired her windows and doors.
“It's horrible, it's scary, successful 1 infinitesimal determination is nary life,” she said. “There's nary subject infrastructure here, thing here, nothing. It's horrible erstwhile radical conscionable dice astatine night.”
People were wounded successful the city's Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts. Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said fires broke retired successful 2 different metropolis districts arsenic a effect of falling debris from drones changeable down by Ukrainian aerial defenses.
Moscow escalated attacks aft Ukraine's Security Service bureau staged an audacious cognition targeting warfare planes successful aerial bases heavy wrong Russian territory.
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