Russia\u2019s military pummeled Kyiv overnight with large-scale drone and missile attack that killed at least two people and injured scores of others, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Moscow\u2019s forces used some 600 drones and 30 missiles, including at least one Oreshnik, a powerful hypersonic ballistic missile that is capable of carrying nuclear weapons, Ukraine\u2019s air force said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe largest number of missiles was directed at the capital \u2014 at ordinary residential buildings, at schools,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Russian strike effectively destroyed<\/a> the Chornobyl Museum, damaged the National Art Museum and the building housing the office of Germany\u2019s ARD,\u201d Zelenskyy said. <\/p>\n Ukrainian intelligence services had warned of an attack using Oreshnik missiles on Friday, Zelenskyy said in another post<\/a>. \u201cThe use of such weapons \u2026 also sets a global precedent for other potential aggressors,\u201d he warned. <\/p>\n The attack on Kyiv came after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of carrying out an attack on student dormitory in Luhansk, in occupied eastern Ukraine, in which 18 people died. Putin ordered the Russian military to prepare \u201cproposals\u201d on how to retaliate.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s military denied responsibility for the deaths, saying it had struck a military command center.<\/p>\n Kaja Kallas, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, condemned the Russian strikes as \u201cabhorrent acts of terror<\/a> meant to kill as many civilians as possible.\u201d She called the use of Oreshnik \u201ca political scare-tactic and reckless nuclear-brinkmanship<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNext week, EU foreign ministers will discuss how to dial up the international pressure on Russia,\u201d Kallas added. <\/p>\n The latest attack sparked a wave of solidarity with Ukraine from the both European and world leaders, including the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz<\/a>, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> and Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s military pummeled Kyiv overnight with large-scale drone and missile attack that killed at least two people and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2594,28,7962,473,2595,7058,1945,1824,2817,2818,2596,7696,2129,2441,2597,2598,54490,8041,332,1199,657,2601,771,335,1116],"class_list":["post-981883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-air-defense","tag-buildings","tag-data-privacy","tag-defense","tag-drones","tag-european-defense","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-intelligence","tag-intelligence-services","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-kristen-michal","tag-mark-carney","tag-markets","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-multinational-defense-programs","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia","tag-services","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116629737785443923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981883","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=981883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}