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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 An overnight Russian missile and drone bombardment of Ukraine killed 15 people and injured 156, local officials said Tuesday, with the main barrage demolishing a nine-story Kyiv apartment building in the deadliest attack on the capital<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

At least 14 people were killed as explosions echoed across the Ukrainian capital for almost nine hours, Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said, destroying dozens of apartments.<\/p>\n

Russia fired more than 440 drones and 32 missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, calling the Kyiv attack \u201cone of the most terrifying strikes\u201d on the capital.<\/p>\n

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Red Cross volunteers evacuate an injured woman from a multi-storey residential house destroyed by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka)<\/p>\n

Red Cross volunteers evacuate an injured woman from a multi-storey residential house destroyed by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka)<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur families had a very difficult night, one of the biggest attacks from the very beginning of this war,\u201d he said after arriving at the G7 summit in Canada.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Interior Ministry said 139 people were injured in Kyiv. Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said Wednesday would be an official day of mourning.<\/p>\n

The attack came after two rounds of direct peace talks<\/a> failed to make progress on ending the war, now in its fourth year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia steps up aerial attacks<\/p>\n

Russia has repeatedly hit civilian areas of Ukraine with missiles and drones. The attacks have killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations. Russia says it strikes only military targets.<\/p>\n

Russia has in recent months stepped up its aerial attacks. It launched almost 500 drones<\/a> at Ukraine on June 10 in the biggest overnight drone bombardment of the war. Russia also pounded Kyiv<\/a> on April 24, killing 12 people.<\/p>\n

The intensified long-range strikes have coincided with a Russian summer offensive on eastern and northeastern sections of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, where Ukraine is short-handed and needs more military support from its Western partners.<\/p>\n

Uncertainty about U.S. policy on the war has fueled doubts about how much help Kyiv can count on. Zelenskyy had been set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> at the G7 summit Tuesday to press him for more help. But Trump returned early to Washington on Monday night because of tensions in the Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Russian drone attacks a building during Russia\u2019s massive missile and drone air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky)<\/p>\n

A Russian drone attacks a building during Russia\u2019s massive missile and drone air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky)<\/p>\n

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer denied that Trump\u2019s refusal to back new sanctions on Russia or provide U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine makes it all but impossible to compel the Kremlin to accept a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The U.K announced new sanctions Tuesday on Russia\u2019s defense industry and its oil-carrying \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of about 500 ships of uncertain ownership that allowed Moscow to dodge sanctions. The announcement coincided with Zelenskyy\u2019s arrival as a guest at the G7 summit.<\/p>\n

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also announced new sanctions on Russia\u2019s shadow fleet and energy revenues, as well an additional $2 billion Canadian ($1.4 billion U.S.) in new funding for Kyiv for drones, ammunition, and armored vehicles. He called the latest attack \u201cbarbarism by Russia\u201d that underscores the importance of standing in solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. <\/p>\n

Ukraine tries to keep the world\u2019s attention<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy is seeking to prevent Ukraine from being sidelined in international diplomacy. Trump said earlier this month it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia \u201cfight for a while\u201d<\/a> before pulling them apart and pursuing peace, but European leaders have urged him to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into accepting a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday it is unclear when another round of talks might take place.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia\u2019s attacks during the G7 summit showed Putin\u2019s \u201ctotal disrespect\u201d for the U.S. and other countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia not only rejects a ceasefire or a leaders\u2019 meeting to find solutions and end the war. It cynically strikes Ukraine\u2019s capital while pretending to seek diplomatic solutions,\u201d Sybiha wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian forces have hit back against Russia with their own domestically produced long-range drones.<\/p>\n

The Russian military said it downed 203 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia reported briefly halting flights overnight in and out of all four Moscow airports, as well as those in the cities of Kaluga, Tambov and Nizhny Novgorod as a precaution.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian shelling killed a 69-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman Tuesday in the border village of Zvannoye in Russia\u2019s Kursk region, Gov. Alexander Khinshtein said.<\/p>\n

Overnight Russian drone strikes also struck the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa, killing one person and injuring 17 others, according to Oleh Kiper, head of the regional administration. <\/p>\n

Putin \u201cis doing this simply because he can afford to continue the war. He wants the war to go on. It is troubling when the powerful of this world turn a blind eye to it,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

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A resident reacts after a Russian missile hit a multi-storey apartment during Russia\u2019s combined missile and drone air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky)<\/p>\n

A resident reacts after a Russian missile hit a multi-storey apartment during Russia\u2019s combined missile and drone air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky)<\/p>\n

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Russian attack demolishes apartment building <\/p>\n

The Russian attack delivered \u201cdirect hits on residential buildings,\u201d the Kyiv City Military Administration said in a statement. \u201cRockets \u2014 from the upper floors to the basement,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

A U.S. citizen died in the attack after suffering shrapnel wounds, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko told reporters.<\/p>\n

Thirty apartments were destroyed in a single residential block after it was struck by a ballistic missile, Klymenko said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have 27 locations that were attacked by the enemy. We currently have over 2,000 people working there, rescuers, police, municipal services and doctors,\u201d he told reporters at the scene of one attack. <\/p>\n

Olena Lapyshniak, 49, was shaken from the strike that nearly leveled her apartment building. She heard a whistling sound and then two explosions that blew out her windows and doors. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s horrible, it\u2019s scary, in one moment there is no life,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s no military infrastructure here, nothing here, nothing. It\u2019s horrible when people just die at night.\u201d <\/p>\n

People were wounded in the city\u2019s Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts. Fires broke out in two other city districts as a result of falling debris from drones shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, the mayor said.<\/p>\n

Moscow escalated attacks after Ukraine\u2019s Security Service agency staged an audacious operation targeting warplanes<\/a> in air bases deep inside Russian territory on June 1. <\/p>\n

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Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jill Lawless and Rob Gillies in Kananaskis, Alberta, Brian Melley in London and Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed.<\/p>\n

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