Ukrainian officials said Russia fired hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in Ukraine on Tuesday, hitting dozens of civilian targets in Kiev, including a large apartment block, killing at least 15 people and injuring points.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian troops sent more than 440 drones and 32 missiles to Ukraine. He described the destruction of Kiev as one of the “most terrifying” in the capital war.
About 27 locations in Kiev were attacked during several attacks throughout the evening, with damaged residential buildings, educational institutions and critical infrastructure, officials said.
A ballistic missile hit a nine-story residential building in the Solomianskyi district of Kiev, wiped off the entire part and flattened it into a pile of debris.
Emergency workers are combing with rubble and burning the flames with hoses. They used a crane to place an injured elderly woman in a stretcher outside the window of the apartment in an adjacent part of the building.
“I've never seen anything like this before. It's so scary. When they started pulling people out, everyone was cut off, the elderly and the children…I don't know how long they can continue to torture us, the average person,” Viktoriia Vovchenko, 57, who lives nearby.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 14 people in Kyiv were killed in Odesa, southern Ukraine. Nearly 100 people were injured in the north between Kiev, Odessa and Chernishev, officials said.
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one of the dead was a 62-year-old American citizen who died of shrapnel injuries.
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Zelenskyy attended the G7 summit in Canada on Tuesday, hoping to provide more support for Russia's stricter sanctions and continued military aid to Ukraine.
Trump has redirected U.S. policy to avoid support from Kiev, and so far has rejected calls from European allies to impose stricter sanctions on Moscow in order to reject a call for a ceasefire.
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Ukraine also launched drones at Russia, although its attack did not cause similar damage to civilian targets. The Russian Ministry of Defense said it had intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian drones on Russian territory, including the Moscow region, overnight.
The full-scale invasion of Russia is now in its fourth year, and hostilities have rapidly increased in recent weeks as Kiev and Moscow failed to reach any agreement in two rounds of peace talks held in Istanbul.
The Russian army can't wait in the ordeal of eastern Ukraine, and despite calling for Trump to stop production, he promised to end the war quickly.
Over time, U.S. President Donald Trump's position on the Russian-Ukrainian war has changed dramatically, especially with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Andrew Chang broke Trump's criticism of Putin after the latest Russian attacks. Getty Images provided by images, Canadian Media and Reuters.
