Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early yesterday, killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces used 430 drones and 18 missiles and Kyiv was responding with long-range strikes. It was one of the biggest attacks on the capital so far.
Ukrainian officials said most of the drones and missiles were shot down, but falling debris and fires damaged high-rise apartments, a school, a medical facility and administrative buildings across nine districts in the city of about three million.
Anastasia, 29, described the moment her apartment block was hit: “At that moment you don’t know what to do first: save yourself, your child, or run to help people, because so many people were screaming and needed help,” she said.
City officials said that six people were killed in Kyiv, which was the focus of the attacks. Russian drones also struck the Black Sea city of Chornomorsk, killing two people, the regional governor said.
“Only pressure – with sanctions and strength – can force Russia to end this war, a war that no one but them ever needed,” Zelenskiy said, adding that the Azerbaijani Embassy was also hit, by debris from an Iskander missile.
Russia’s defence ministry said its troops hit Ukrainian energy facilities and weapons-production complex with high-precision weapons to respond to Ukrainian attacks on Russia.
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