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Rescuers work at the site of a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday. (EPA-Yonhap) <\/p>\n Rescuers work at the site of a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday. (EPA-Yonhap) <\/p>\n
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia launched an intense barrage of ballistic missiles and drones overnight into Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding 33 civilians in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The strikes follow a major Russian attack two days earlier that killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 50 others across Ukraine, as Moscow apparently looks to exploit Kyiv\u2019s critical shortage of Western-supplied anti-ballistic missile defenses. The relentless cycle of attacks dims the potential of reaching a diplomatic end to Russia\u2019s more than 4-year-old invasion of its neighbor.<\/p>\n
A five-story residential building in the city’s Solomianskyi District was damaged by falling debris and a fire broke out. Rescue workers evacuated 35 people from the upper floors of the building and two people died, with eight reported injured, including two children, according to Ukraine\u2019s state emergency service.<\/p>\n
In the Darnytskyi District of Kyiv, seven people were killed and another 14 injured after the attack caused fires and damage to houses, vehicles, an administrative and non-residential building, the emergency services said.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, emergency workers extinguished a fire in a non-residential building in the capital\u2019s Shevchenkivskyi district. There was no additional information about earlier reports by the district mayor that people were trapped in another residential building.<\/p>\n
Damage to commercial and residential buildings was reported in two other city districts.<\/p>\n
Lithuania\u2019s foreign minister said the country\u2019s embassy in Kyiv was damaged when missiles struck nearby overnight.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said Saturday it had launched a \u201cmassive strike\u201d against \u201cUkrainian military-industrial complex facilities and logistics centers in Kyiv.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pressed the US and other Western partners over Ukraine\u2019s need for more Patriot anti-ballistic missile defense systems to counter missile attacks from Russia.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery package of ballistic missile interceptors saves the lives of our people. And every night without them results in more casualties,\u201d he wrote on X following the latest attacks.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian leader late Friday said he spoke to US Vice President JD Vance and discussed a meeting with President Donald Trump earlier this week in Washington, which Zelenskyy described as \u201cpositive and productive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Russian air strikes on our country continue and air defense, specifically interceptors for Patriot systems against ballistic missiles, remains a top priority,\u201d Zelenskyy said Friday in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n
At a NATO summit in Ankara in July, Trump said the US would give Ukraine a license to make Patriot systems, but he appeared to move away from that commitment on Friday during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, saying he had not yet made a final decision on the matter.<\/p>\n
From a basement shelter where she was taking cover as a second air alarm sounded for another wave, Liudmyla Nakonechna, 64, described how she was woken by loud explosions at 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran into the corridor and was standing there when the bathroom door was blown off its hinges and struck me in the leg,\u201d said Nakonechna, whose health is poor after undergoing cancer treatment. \u201cI heard the sound of shattering glass. My balcony was covered in glass and it was completely blown apart, while the windows in my bedroom were also blown out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nakonechna had not taken cover in a shelter since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, but the stress became too much, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s getting worse by the day,\u201d Nakonechna said. \u201cWhereas before there was an attack once every two weeks, or maybe once a week, now it happens practically every day. It is incredibly hard to bear this psychologically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers work at the site of a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55000,3718,195,48045,4177,137],"class_list":["post-106665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-barrage","tag-drones","tag-k-pop","tag-kyiv","tag-missiles","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}