A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital has killed at least two people and injured 11, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.Among the dead was a 1-year-old child, whose body was dug out of the rubble by rescuers, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s city administration.Video above: Ukraine and the trilateral meeting Trump lobbied for with Putin and ZelenskyA fire broke out on the top floor of an administrative building in the Pechersk district, where government buildings, including the cabinet of ministers, is located. Associated Press journalists saw plumes of smoke emanating from the city center, where Russian attacks rarely hit.Russian drone debris struck four-story residential buildings in Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts, according to Mayor Vitallii Klitschko.Sunday’s attack is the second mass Russian drone and missile attack to target Kyiv in the span of two weeks, as hopes for peace talks wane.Associated Press reporters saw a plume of smoke rising from the roof of Kyiv’s cabinet of ministers building following a mass Russian drone and missile attack on Sunday morning. It was not immediately clear if the smoke was the result of a direct hit, which would mark an escalation in Russia’s air campaign. Russia has so far avoided targeting government buildings in the city center.
A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital has killed at least two people and injured 11, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
Among the dead was a 1-year-old child, whose body was dug out of the rubble by rescuers, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s city administration.
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Video above: Ukraine and the trilateral meeting Trump lobbied for with Putin and Zelensky
A fire broke out on the top floor of an administrative building in the Pechersk district, where government buildings, including the cabinet of ministers, is located. Associated Press journalists saw plumes of smoke emanating from the city center, where Russian attacks rarely hit.
Russian drone debris struck four-story residential buildings in Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts, according to Mayor Vitallii Klitschko.
Sunday’s attack is the second mass Russian drone and missile attack to target Kyiv in the span of two weeks, as hopes for peace talks wane.
Associated Press reporters saw a plume of smoke rising from the roof of Kyiv’s cabinet of ministers building following a mass Russian drone and missile attack on Sunday morning.
It was not immediately clear if the smoke was the result of a direct hit, which would mark an escalation in Russia’s air campaign. Russia has so far avoided targeting government buildings in the city center.
