Kyiv, Ukraine — A Russian rocket and drone barrage successful Kyiv overnight Tuesday killed astatine slightest 14 radical portion they slept successful their homes and wounded 44 others successful 1 of the deadliest attacks connected the Ukrainian superior successful caller months, section officials said.
Russian drone strikes successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Odesa besides wounded 13 people, including 1 child, according to Oleh Kiper, the determination governor.
Kyiv City Military Administration caput Tymur Tkachenko said 14 radical were killed successful the attack, which hollowed retired a nine-story residential gathering and destroyed dozens of apartments. Emergency workers were astatine the country to rescue radical from nether the rubble. Ukraine's Emergency Service said 44 radical were wounded.
People stitchery adjacent a 9 communicative residential gathering successful Solomianskyi district, wherever the full building's conception from the 1st to the 9th floors was destroyed by a Russian ballistic rocket onslaught connected June 17, 2025 successful Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Russia utilized 175 drones, implicit 14 cruise missiles and astatine slightest 2 ballistic missiles successful the onslaught successful Kyiv, the Kyiv City Military Administration said successful a connection Tuesday, citing preliminary reports.
"The quality of the harm is nonstop hits connected residential buildings. Rockets - from the precocious floors to the basement," the connection said.
The onslaught lasted astir 9 hours and is the latest successful a spate of wide drone and rocket attacks connected Kyiv.
It occurred arsenic satellite leaders convened astatine the Group of Seven gathering successful Canada, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to attend. The acme runs done Tuesday.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko told reporters astatine the country that a U.S. national was killed successful the onslaught aft suffering wounds from shrapnel. Explosions could beryllium heard for hours passim the nighttime connected Tuesday.
A babe stroller stands successful an flat damaged successful a Russian airstrike connected June 17, 2025 successful Kyiv, Ukraine.
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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 Vitali Klitschko said fires broke retired successful 2 different metropolis districts arsenic a effect of falling debris from drones changeable down by Ukrainian aerial defenses.
Canada, which assumed the presidency of the G7 this year, invited Zelenskyy to the summit, wherever helium is expected to clasp one-on-one meetings with satellite leaders.
Zelenskyy was acceptable to conscionable with President Trump successful Canada Tuesday, but the White House announced Mr. Trump would beryllium returning unexpectedly to Washington connected Monday nighttime alternatively of Tuesday nighttime due to the fact that of tensions successful the Mideast.
Russia has launched a grounds fig of drones and missiles successful caller weeks. Moscow escalated attacks aft Ukraine's Security Service bureau staged an audacious cognition targeting warfare planes successful aerial bases heavy wrong Russian territory.
Little advancement has emerged from nonstop bid talks held successful Istanbul, with the objection of prisoner exchanges, expected to reason adjacent week, said Zelenskyy.
Meanwhile, Russia's information main Sergei Shoigu arrived successful North Korea Tuesday to conscionable person Kim Jong Un for a 2nd clip successful little than 2 weeks, Russian quality agencies reported, according to French quality bureau AFP. The Reuters quality bureau cited Russia's Tass quality bureau arsenic saying Shoigu went to Pyongyang "on peculiar instructions" from President Vladimir Putin.
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