{"id":404468,"date":"2025-09-07T05:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404468\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:25:10","slug":"baby-among-two-killed-in-russian-drone-attack-on-kyiv-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404468\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby among two killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyiv officials said several multi-storey residential buildings in the western Svyatoshynkyi and south-eastern Darnytskyi districts were partially destroyed and continued to be ablaze after direct hits.<\/p>\n

“The Russians are deliberately hitting civilian facilities,” Tkachenko said, urging residents to remain in shelters. <\/p>\n

There were multiple explosions in Kyiv in the early morning, including at least one in the city centre, seen by the BBC. Several cruise missiles also targeted the capital.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said a government building was on fire in the central Pecherskyi district. He said a downed Russian drone likely caused the blaze.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters are working on the scene,” the mayor added.<\/p>\n

Russia has not commented on the reported drone strikes across Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Russian defence ministry said its air defence forces shot down or intercepted 69 Ukrainian drones in a number of Russian regions.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Putin rejected Western proposals for a “reassurance force” in Ukraine<\/a> the day after any ceasefire comes into place, following a Paris summit aimed at finalising plans for security guarantees.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron said 26 of Ukraine’s allies had formally committed to deploying troops “by land, sea or air” to help provide security the moment fighting was brought to a halt. He gave no further details.<\/p>\n

Putin sought to quash the allies’ initiative, warning that any troops deployed to Ukraine would be “legitimate targets”.<\/p>\n

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory – including the southern Crimea peninsula illegally annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyiv officials said several multi-storey residential buildings in the western Svyatoshynkyi and south-eastern Darnytskyi districts were partially destroyed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-404468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115161355140973416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404468","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=404468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}