\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUkraine\u2019s capital Kyiv came under a deadly Russian attack early Monday morning, on the eve of a critical NATO summit in Turkey that President Donald Trump plans to attend.Massive explosions lit up the night sky as ballistic missiles and drones hammered parts of the city, killing at least 14 people in the city and three others in the surrounding region, with dozens more wounded, city officials said.Related video above: President Donald Trump heads to NATO summit has relations with NATO allies are strainedResidential buildings were badly damaged in the assault, leaving people trapped in multi-story apartment blocks and an entire family that was killed pulled from the rubble, while cars were seen burning on city streets.There was \u201cdestruction and damage\u201d in four districts of the city, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, adding that the Podilsky district was hit the hardest.Rescuers evacuated residents, including children, from the upper floors of a damaged building in the district early Monday, while many in the capital spent hours in air raid shelters.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned just hours earlier that Moscow was \u201cpreparing a new massive strike,\u201d and the fresh assault comes just days after a ferocious Russian attack on Kyiv killed 30 people last Thursday \u2013 the third-deadliest attack on the capital since the war began.\u201cThis is typical of Putin: right after America\u2019s Independence Day and before the NATO Summit in Ankara,\u201d Zelensky said Sunday in a post on X ahead of the attack.Residential buildings in Kyiv\u2019s southeastern Darnytskyi district, an area of the city that suffered significant damage last week, were also badly damaged in the Monday strikes.The lethality of the Russian assaults on Kyiv in the last week displays the challenge Ukraine faces in protecting its capital as Russia innovates and steps up its attacks.None of the ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine on Monday were shot down by air defenses, according to data from its air force, which said 29 ballistic missiles and 18 attack drones had struck 34 locations across the country. More than 350 drones and 66 missiles were launched toward Ukraine, with Kyiv the main target, it said.Monday\u2019s attacks led to power outages across a number of regions in Ukraine, including Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, the country electricity transmission agency.Russia\u2019s defense ministry said it used \u201chigh-precision, long-range weapons\u201d to target military-industrial facilities and fuel and energy sites in Kyiv on Monday. It said the attacks were in response to Ukrainian attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russian territory.War in focus at NATO summitRussia\u2019s war in Ukraine will form the backdrop to the NATO summit this week in Turkey, where Trump will meet with Zelensky. The pair spoke on the phone on Saturday.Trump then offered again to help end the war on Sunday during a nearly 90-minute call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Russia\u2019s foreign ministry.The U.S. president had vowed to solve the war within 24 hours of taking office for a second time, but more than 500 days into his current term, the administration has yet to find a path to peace between the neighbors, despite multiple attempts.Ahead of the summit, Zelensky is using the attacks on Kyiv to renew his plea for allies to supply Ukraine with missiles for Patriot systems.The \u201cinsufficient supply of interceptor missiles\u201d was the reason Ukraine was unable to shoot down any ballistic missiles in Monday\u2019s assault, Zelensky said in a statement.\u201cIt is critically important that the world \u2013 first and foremost the United States and our European partners \u2013 come out of the NATO Summit in Ankara with strong decisions in support of our air defense,\u201d he said\u201cAs long as Patriot missiles remain in our allies\u2019 stockpiles, Russia is only encouraged to keep \u2018vanquishing\u2019 residential buildings,\u201d he added.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the country \u201curgently needs more air defence. We will discuss it this week in Ankara at the @NATO Summit.\u201dZelensky sees Patriots as key for shooting down Russia\u2019s arsenal of ballistic missiles, loitering munitions and increasingly its Geran-4 jet-powered drones \u2013\u2013 which fly too fast for Kyiv\u2019s mobile fire groups and can only be shot down with ground-to-air missiles or fighter jets.The latest versions of Patriot interceptors are capable of engaging incoming short-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones at altitudes up to 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) and distances of up to 35 kilometers.Geran-4 UAV\u2019s were used in both Monday and last Thursday\u2019s attacks.Russian forces have also stepped up efforts to take more of Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region \u2013 a key objective for the Kremlin, and Ukraine\u2019s cities face near-nightly attacks from Moscow\u2019s drones and missiles.Ukraine, meantime, has also recently ramped up missile and drone attacks against key infrastructure deep inside Russian territory, including oil refineries, ports and military factories. Russia shot down 519 Ukrainian drones launched toward it overnight into Monday, the state news agency TASS reported.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv came under a deadly Russian attack early Monday morning, on the eve of a critical NATO summit in Turkey that President Donald Trump plans to attend.<\/p>\n
Massive explosions lit up the night sky as ballistic missiles and drones hammered parts of the city, killing at least 14 people in the city and three others in the surrounding region, with dozens more wounded, city officials said.<\/p>\n
Related video above: President Donald Trump heads to NATO summit has relations with NATO allies are strained<\/p>\n
Residential buildings were badly damaged in the assault, leaving people trapped in multi-story apartment blocks and an entire family that was killed pulled from the rubble, while cars were seen burning on city streets.<\/p>\n
There was \u201cdestruction and damage\u201d in four districts of the city, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, adding that the Podilsky district was hit the hardest.<\/p>\n
Rescuers evacuated residents, including children, from the upper floors of a damaged building in the district early Monday, while many in the capital spent hours in air raid shelters.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned just hours earlier that Moscow was \u201cpreparing a new massive strike,\u201d and the fresh assault comes just days after a ferocious Russian attack on Kyiv killed 30 people last Thursday \u2013 the third-deadliest attack on the capital since the war began.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is typical of Putin: right after America\u2019s Independence Day and before the NATO Summit in Ankara,\u201d Zelensky said Sunday in a post on X ahead of the attack.<\/p>\n
Residential buildings in Kyiv\u2019s southeastern Darnytskyi district, an area of the city that suffered significant damage last week, were also badly damaged in the Monday strikes.<\/p>\n
The lethality of the Russian assaults on Kyiv in the last week displays the challenge Ukraine faces in protecting its capital as Russia innovates and steps up its attacks.<\/p>\n
None of the ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine on Monday were shot down by air defenses, according to data from its air force, which said 29 ballistic missiles and 18 attack drones had struck 34 locations across the country. More than 350 drones and 66 missiles were launched toward Ukraine, with Kyiv the main target, it said.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s attacks led to power outages across a number of regions in Ukraine, including Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, the country electricity transmission agency.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s defense ministry said it used \u201chigh-precision, long-range weapons\u201d to target military-industrial facilities and fuel and energy sites in Kyiv on Monday. It said the attacks were in response to Ukrainian attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russian territory.<\/p>\n
War in focus at NATO summit<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine will form the backdrop to the NATO summit this week in Turkey, where Trump will meet with Zelensky. The pair spoke on the phone on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Trump then offered again to help end the war on Sunday during a nearly 90-minute call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Russia\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n
The U.S. president had vowed to solve the war within 24 hours of taking office for a second time, but more than 500 days into his current term, the administration has yet to find a path to peace between the neighbors, despite multiple attempts.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the summit, Zelensky is using the attacks on Kyiv to renew his plea for allies to supply Ukraine with missiles for Patriot systems.<\/p>\n
The \u201cinsufficient supply of interceptor missiles\u201d was the reason Ukraine was unable to shoot down any ballistic missiles in Monday\u2019s assault, Zelensky said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is critically important that the world \u2013 first and foremost the United States and our European partners \u2013 come out of the NATO Summit in Ankara with strong decisions in support of our air defense,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as Patriot missiles remain in our allies\u2019 stockpiles, Russia is only encouraged to keep \u2018vanquishing\u2019 residential buildings,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the country \u201curgently needs more air defence. We will discuss it this week in Ankara at the @NATO Summit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zelensky sees Patriots as key for shooting down Russia\u2019s arsenal of ballistic missiles, loitering munitions and increasingly its Geran-4 jet-powered drones \u2013\u2013 which fly too fast for Kyiv\u2019s mobile fire groups and can only be shot down with ground-to-air missiles or fighter jets.<\/p>\n
The latest versions of Patriot interceptors are capable of engaging incoming short-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones at altitudes up to 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) and distances of up to 35 kilometers.<\/p>\n
Geran-4 UAV\u2019s were used in both Monday and last Thursday\u2019s attacks.<\/p>\n
Russian forces have also stepped up efforts to take more of Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region \u2013 a key objective for the Kremlin, and Ukraine\u2019s cities face near-nightly attacks from Moscow\u2019s drones and missiles.<\/p>\n
Ukraine, meantime, has also recently ramped up missile and drone attacks against key infrastructure deep inside Russian territory, including oil refineries, ports and military factories. Russia shot down 519 Ukrainian drones launched toward it overnight into Monday, the state news agency TASS reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv came under a deadly Russian attack early Monday morning, on the eve of a critical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3893,543,2021,3695,3890,3903,3900,3891,3899,2362,57,3884,3894,677,775,248,3885,383,3892,358,3731,3886,3887,2649,66,3898,210,540,3902,50,20,3888,67,3535,3889,3901,2263,71,2041,3482,3530,438,130,608],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-raid-sirens","tag-ankara","tag-ankara-summit","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-ballistic-missiles","tag-capital","tag-city-center","tag-civilian-casualties","tag-combined-attack","tag-day","tag-donald-trump","tag-donetsk-offensive","tag-donetsk-region","tag-drone","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-geran-4-drone","tag-international","tag-jsnd","tag-kyiv","tag-kyiv-attack","tag-kyiv-drones","tag-kyiv-explosions","tag-law","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-nato-summit","tag-patriot-missiles","tag-patriots","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-russia-strikes","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-russian-drones","tag-russian-missile-strike","tag-sunday","tag-turkey-summit","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-air-defense","tag-ukraine-news","tag-vitali-klitschko","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}