Kyiv: Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones early Saturday morning, wounding at least eight people, a day before talks between Ukraine and the US, local authorities said.
Explosions boomed across the capital for hours as ballistic missiles and drones hit the city. The attack began in the early morning hours Saturday and was continuing as the day broke.
The attack came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares to meet with US President Donald Trump Sunday for further talks in an effort to end the nearly four-year-old war. Zelenskyy said they plan to discuss issues, including security guarantees and territorial issues in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
A 16-year-old child was among those injured in the attack, which affected seven locations across the city of Kyiv, said the head of Kyiv’s City Military Administration, Tymur Tkachenko, in a statement on Telegram.
A fire broke out in an 18-story residential building in the Dnipro district of the city, and emergency crews rushed to the scene to contain the flames.
A 24-story residential building in the Darnytsia district was also hit, Tkachenko said, and more fires broke out in the Obolonskyi and Holosiivsky districts.
In the wider Kyiv region, the strikes hit industrial and residential buildings, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service. In the Vyshhorod area, emergency crews rescued one person found under the rubble of a destroyed house.
