{"id":1193012,"date":"2026-09-08T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193012\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:08:17","slug":"russian-strikes-on-ukraines-kyiv-kill-at-least-two-people-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1193012\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian strikes on Ukraine\u2019s Kyiv kill at least two people | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

US envoy says \u2018encouraged\u2019 by talks as White House official told Reuters that next steps will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

Russia has struck Kyiv after a three-day pause in attacks on the Ukrainian and Russian capitals expired, following a visit by two US envoys that yielded no tangible progress towards ending the more than four-year war.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s air force said on Tuesday it\u00a0had\u00a0downed 142 drones, 31 of 32 cruise missiles, and two ballistic missiles launched by Russia. It did not disclose how many ballistic missiles had been used in the attack.<\/p>\n

At least two people were killed and 10 others wounded in the Russian air raids on Ukraine\u2019s capital, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.<\/p>\n

He reported that the strikes caused damage in the city\u2019s Darnytskyi, Holosiivskyi, Podilskyi, Shevchenkivskyi and Solomianskyi districts.<\/p>\n

Drones hit buildings in Kyiv as well as in the Boryspil and Fastiv districts on the outskirts of the city, according to Ukraine\u2019s emergency services.<\/p>\n

Ukraine criticised Russia for launching attacks so soon after US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoys \u2013 Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner \u2013 visited both countries\u2019 capitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment the US president\u2019s peace envoys left, [President Vladimir] Putin launched another massive, horrific attack against Kyiv,\u201d Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on social media, adding: \u201cHis ballistic missiles speak louder than his words on diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the attacks in Ukraine, Russian regional Governor Roman Busargin said a Ukrainian drone attack hit civilian infrastructure in Saratov, nearly 1,000km (621 miles) from Moscow, injuring several people.<\/p>\n

At least one person was killed in a separate Ukrainian attack on the Russian town of Starodub in the border area of the Bryansk region, according to Yegor Kovalchuk, the region\u2019s acting governor.<\/p>\n

At least two people were killed and one person was wounded in a Ukrainian attack on the Crimean Peninsula, Moscow-appointed regional Governor Sergei Aksyonov said.<\/p>\n

Russia and Ukraine pledged to halt strikes on each other\u2019s capitals for three days as Washington dispatched envoys to Moscow and Kyiv. However, fighting continued elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Attacks paused after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Putin announced the partial ceasefire during the US envoys\u2019 visits to Moscow and Kyiv<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s state news agency TASS confirmed that the three-day suspension Putin had ordered for his forces expired on Monday evening local time.<\/p>\n

Witkoff and Kushner held talks with officials in Moscow and Kyiv regarding ending the war. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov called the meeting, which lasted more than three hours<\/a> in Moscow on Saturday, \u201chighly useful\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"RussianRussian President Vladimir Putin, right, welcomes Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, left, and special envoy Steve Witkoff, second left, at the Kremlin in Moscow, September 5, 2026 [Gavriil Grigorov\/Sputnik\/Kremlin via EPA]<\/p>\n

After talks with Zelenskyy, Witkoff said<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019ve had a very meaningful discussion, substantive, important, and we are very encouraged, and we look forward to continuing this as long as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also raised the prospects of reviving three-way negotiations to end the war.<\/p>\n

A White House official told the Reuters news agency that the next steps regarding the war, which Russia began with a full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022, would be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US envoy says \u2018encouraged\u2019 by talks as White House official told Reuters that next steps will be announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1193013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,6178,32302,393,299,4884,2597,12,1144,285,332,7661,712,16,657,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1193012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-britain","tag-conflict","tag-drone-strikes","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-great-britain","tag-military","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}