At least 8, 70 were killed in Russian air strikes on Kiev

Russia, Kiev, bombed missiles and drones overnight, killing at least eight people, and wounded more than 70 buildings in the largest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.

Officials said the attack led to the fires and six children were among the wounded, as some people are still trapped under the rubble.

“There has been destruction,” said government emergency service.

The mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko said eight people, so far, were killed in the capital, although officials had said earlier that nine were killed. Klitschko said the most dangerous accident was in the Sviatoshynskyi area west of the city center, where rescuers continued to purify the rubble of two buildings.

The photos published on Telegram showed rescue teams that work with the lights of revealing lights, moving with caution through piles of rubble and climbing stairs extending along the facades of the buildings. The police were calling from the apartment to the apartment to determine whether the residents were safe.

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Emergency services said that rescue teams were working on 13 sites in Kiev with climbing specialists and idle dogs. Forty fires have erupted.

“The mobile phones are listening to the rubble,” she said.

The fires erupted in the garages, administrative buildings, and fallen metal fragments.

The alert was valid in the capital for six hours.

“There was an air warning, we had no time to wear out of the apartment.

The Air Force in Ukraine said in a telegram that Russia fired 145 drones and 70 missiles, including 11 ballistic missiles, in the night attack. Air Force units dropped 112 targets.

Interior Minister Ehher Clemeno said that regardless of Kiev and the surrounding area, seven other areas were under “collective” attack.

Ihor Terekhov municipality wrote on Telegram that Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, endured waves of Russian missiles and drones.

Tirikov said the city in northeastern Ukraine was attacked 14 times with drones and 10 times with missiles. He said that the multi -storey residential buildings, a multi -city, a school building, private squares, industrial institutions, and a hotel complex damaged, and one person was taken to the hospital.

There was also damage to the Zhytomyr area, west of KyIV, where emergency services said that the Russian forces launched a repeated blow to the rescue teams that attended a fire, which resulted in the injury of one worker.

In the industrial city of Pavotrad, which is located in the central Dniproptrovsk area, 14 multi -storey buildings are damaged, most of them from their windows and balconies.

Diplomatic tensions

The attacks came at a critical moment in the Russian war in Ukraine, which began to invade Moscow on a large scale in 2022, with both Kiev and Moscow under pressure from US President Donald Trump to show progress towards a peace deal.

Trump threatened and managed to stay away from the efforts of the broker to the ceasefire if there is no progress, leaving European countries looking for ways to support Kiev.

The talks in London on Wednesday aim to achieve a “great progress” deal to reach a “joint position in the following steps”, according to a joint statement issued by Britain, France and Germany. However, the talks were reduced after a decision at the last minute by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to attend.

Trump seemed to blame Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski for the lack of progress after Zelinski said he would not know the occupation of the peninsula of the Peninsula of Crimea, which was included from Ukraine in 2014, as part of a peace deal.

Zelinski said on Tuesday that the recognition of the foreigner of Crimea as part of Russia would violate the constitution of Ukraine. Ukraine says it is committed to searching for a full and unconditional fire stop.

Russia also accused Zelinski of integrating diplomacy aimed at reaching a peace agreement after this week he refused to agree to realize the inclusion of Russian Crimea.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday in Russia told Russia that he became more clear at the moment Zelinski lacks negotiating an agreement to end the war.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Sibha said on X that “brutal strikes” in Kiev showed that Russia, not Ukraine, was an obstacle to peace.

There was no immediate comment from Russia on overnight attacks.