A Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine\u2019s capital has killed at least six people, including a six-year-old boy, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials.<\/p>\n
The overnight attack wounded at least 52 people and caused damage at 27 locations across four districts of Kyiv, city military administrator Tymur Tkachenko said on Thursday as casualty numbers are expected to rise.<\/p>\n
Rescue teams were at the scene to search for people trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s latest deadly attack on Ukraine came after United States President Donald Trump on Monday issued a 10- or 12-day ultimatum<\/a> to Moscow to halt its invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, now in its fourth year, or face sanctions.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said on Thursday that Russia had used more than 300 drones and eight missiles in the attack as he posted a video of burning ruins on social media.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, the world once again saw Russia\u2019s response to our desire for peace, shared with America and Europe,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote. \u201cThat is why peace without strength is impossible. But forcing Moscow to make peace, compelling them to come to a real negotiating table \u2013 all the tools needed for this are in the hands of our partners.\u201d<\/p>\n Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said it was a \u201chorrible morning in Kyiv\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe brutal Russian strikes destroyed entire residential buildings and damaged schools and hospitals,\u201d Sybiha said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is unequivocally one of the largest attacks that we\u2019ve seen in recent weeks and the majority focusing on Kyiv,\u201d Al Jazeera\u2019s Charles Stratford said, reporting from Kyiv.<\/p>\n A \u201clarge residential area \u2026 with box flats all around\u201d was hit, he said, adding, \u201cThe majority of the windows in those flats have been blown out.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to the minister of the interior [Ihor Klymenko], \u2026 the power of this attack was so strong that people were literally hurled out of their apartment buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n Yana Zhabborova, a resident of one of the damaged buildings, woke up to the sound of the explosions, which blew off the doors and windows of her home.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is just stress and shock that there is nothing left,\u201d said Zhabborova, a 35-year-old mother of a five-month-old and five-year-old.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said the attack had targeted and hit Ukrainian air fields and ammunition depots as well as businesses linked to what it called Kyiv\u2019s military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian air force later said its air defences intercepted and jammed 288 of the 309 drones involved in the attack and three of the eight missiles.<\/p>\n Ukrainian drones later struck an electronics plant in the western Russian city of Penza, according to Governor Oleg Melnichenko and an official from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The official said the plant, which produces combat control systems for the Russian military, caught fire. Melnichenko confirmed that it caught fire.<\/p>\n Drone wreckage also halted some trains in the Volgograd region, state rail operator Russian Railways said.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence said on Thursday that it had shot down 32 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Russia said it had captured the town of Chasiv Yar, which had been a strategically important military hub for Ukrainian forces in the east.<\/p>\n The town in the Donetsk region \u201cwas liberated by Russian forces\u201d, Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said in a statement. Ukraine has not commented on the reported retreat.<\/p>\n If confirmed, the capture of the town, which had been the site of battles for months, would be the latest locality to fall to Russia\u2019s incremental but steady territorial gains.<\/p>\n The fall of the hilltop town now paves the way for Russian forces to advance on the remaining civilian strongholds in Donetsk, like the garrison city of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, important logistical bases for the Ukrainian military and home to many civilians, who have up to now not fled the fighting.<\/p>\n The Kremlin has made the capture of the Donetsk region its military priority and claimed as far back as late 2022 that the industrial territory was part of Russia.<\/p>\n Kyiv has been trying to repel Russia\u2019s summer offensive, which has made advances into areas on the eastern front line largely spared since the start of its invasion.<\/p>\n Thursday\u2019s attacks came on the heels of a Russian strike on a military training camp, which killed at least three Ukrainian soldiers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n After Thursday\u2019s strikes, Sybiha called on the international community to apply utmost pressure on Moscow to end the war it launched in February 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Trump has been very generous and very patient with Putin, trying to find a solution,\u201d Sybiha wrote.<\/p>\n But Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cdoes not care about any attempts to put an end to the killing\u201d, Sybiha charged. \u201cHe only seeks to destroy and kill. Because the entire existence of this war criminal is based on this senseless war, which he cannot win but refuses to end.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s time to make him feel the pain and consequences of his choices. It\u2019s time to put maximum pressure on Moscow,\u201d Sybiha wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine\u2019s capital has killed at least six people, including a six-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32302,299,2597,12,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-306485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-drone-strikes","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-military","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","14":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947673628689122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306485","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=306485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}