Kyiv hit fatal air strikes

Russian forces launched a major attack on missiles and drones on Kiev early Thursday, killing at least nine people in the city and wounding more than 60 years, according to the Ukrainian authorities, the most deadly attack on the Ukrainian capital since last summer.

Bangs can be heard all night. Brown smoke clouds rose over the city when the sun appeared. One two -story missile hit eight apartments, where emergency workers hunting for the survivors Thursday morning. I lost a five -storey building next to all its windows. People stood abroad, stare in damage and talk on their phones, and told their loved ones that they were alive. There was no visible military target nearby.

“Now we have dug another person, alive!”.

Andrei Yermak, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian President, posted a video on social media that showcases emergency workers outside a building that turned into ruins. “Once again, Russia strikes civilians,” he said.

The mayor of the city, the city’s president, said that the city’s mayor, Hure Tirikov, said that drones and cruise missiles also struck Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, the second largest city in the country, at least two people were wounded. He said that one of the strikes hit a residential neighborhood, as the rescue work continued early on Thursday. The total number of the dead or the injured throughout the country was not known Thursday morning.

The attack is one of the bloodiest war on Kiev and the worst missile attack on the city since last July, when Russian missiles have killed 41 people in Ukraine, Destruction of the children’s hospital In Kyiv, 21 people were killed throughout the city. The deadly missile strikes also targeted cities Sums and Kryvyi Rira.

It comes in a decisive time in the war, which started with the full invasion of Russia in February 2022. On Easter, it seemed a temporary truce called President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia is like more than a Public relations trick From the actual ceasefire along the front lines, but still, there were no unmanned attacks or missiles on Ukrainian cities. On Wednesday, the planned peace talks in London It has been reducedLargely because the United States decided not to attend.

Since he took office in January, the Trump administration has repeated the Kremlin’s conversation points in the war and on Ukraine, a reflection of the previous United States policy. Last week, the Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to stay away from the peace process. On Wednesday, President Trump and his highest aides demanded that Kiev accept a planned American design plan that would apparently give Russia all the lands she gained in the war, with Kiev’s mysterious assurances only about the security of the country’s future.

To date, Ukrainian President Folomer Zelinski unacceptable This deal.

Andrew E. Church It contributed to the reports from Kharkif and Ukraine and Oleksandra mykolyyshyn From Kyiv, Ukraine.