Kyiv, Ukraine — A combined Russian rocket and drone onslaught successful Kyiv overnight Tuesday killed astatine slightest 14 radical and wounded 44 others, according to Ukrainian officials.
Kyiv City Military Administration caput Tymur Tkachenko said 14 radical had been killed successful the attack, which hollowed retired a 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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The attack, the latest successful a spate of wide drone and rocket attacks connected Kyiv, 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.
Thirty apartments were destroyed successful a azygous residential block, Klymenko said.
A babe stroller stands successful an flat damaged successful a Russian airstrike connected June 17, 2025 successful Kyiv, Ukraine.
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People were wounded successful the city's Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts. Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said fires broke retired successful 2 different Kyiv 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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