‘Massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv kills at least 4, dozens hurt

Ukrainian authorities picture Russia’s rocket and drone onslaught arsenic ‘massive’, with aggregate areas of Kyiv hit.

An overnight Russian drone and rocket onslaught connected Ukraine’s superior Kyiv has killed astatine slightest 4 radical and wounded much than 20 others, officials said.

Powerful explosions rocked the metropolis into the aboriginal hours of Thursday morning, illuminating the entity and leaving down columns of fume arsenic Russian projectiles damaged and destroyed buildings successful respective districts of the city.

The onslaught was the archetypal large combined Russian drone and rocket onslaught to onslaught Kyiv since United States President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin successful Alaska earlier this period to sermon ending the warfare successful Ukraine.

Tymur Tkachenko, the caput of Kyiv’s metropolis subject administration, said a 14-year-old miss was among those reported killed, citing preliminary information.

A five-storey residential gathering successful the city’s Darnytskyi territory was deed directly. “Everything is destroyed,” Tkachenko said.

“Tonight, Kyiv is nether monolithic onslaught by the Russian violent state,” helium said.

Local media outlet The Kyiv Independent said astatine slightest 4 radical were confirmed killed, and officials expect the fig of casualties to rise.

Rescuers enactment astatine the tract of a gathering deed by Russian rocket and drone strikes successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Thursday [Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters]

Another onslaught successful cardinal Kyiv near a large roadworthy strewn with shattered glass, and rescue teams were moving to propulsion radical trapped beneath rubble from immoderate 20 affected locations crossed the city.

Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko besides called it a “massive attack” by Russia, adding that 2 children were besides among the injured.

Officials provided quality organisations with a agelong database of buildings that had suffered damage, including respective high-rise flat blocks, and photos and video posted online showed apartments ablaze and fume billowing from buildings.

The onslaught comes amid so-far failed efforts by President Trump to person Putin to cease his warfare connected Ukraine, and arsenic some Moscow and Kyiv commercialized blasted implicit a diplomatic impasse successful efforts to extremity the fighting.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Wednesday that members of his medication would conscionable with US officials successful New York connected Friday.

The Ukrainian person said helium saw “very arrogant and antagonistic signals from Moscow” regarding negotiations to extremity the war, urging other “pressure” to “force Russia to instrumentality existent steps” to cease fighting.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies