‘Disrespect to US’: Ukraine brands Russia’s ‘horrific’ bombardment of Kyiv

Ukraine calls for planetary absorption connected attacks amid diplomatic effort to rise unit connected Moscow to hold a ceasefire.

Waves of Russian rocket and drone strikes person killed astatine slightest 15 radical and injured 116 others, with astir of the casualties in Kyiv, Ukrainian officials person reported.

The monolithic aerial battle overnight into Tuesday struck 27 locations successful the Ukrainian capital, damaging residential buildings and captious infrastructure, according to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.

Ukrainian officials were speedy to telephone for planetary attraction connected the attacks arsenic Kyiv pushes diplomatic efforts to rise unit connected Moscow to hold a ceasefire.

“Today, the force spared neither drones nor missiles,” Klymenko said, describing the onslaught arsenic 1 of the largest against Kyiv since Russia launched its full-scale penetration of the state successful February 2022.

Thirty apartments were destroyed successful a azygous residential block, and exigency services were searching done the rubble for imaginable survivors, Klymenko added.

People were injured successful Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, and fires broke retired successful 2 different parts of the city, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

‘Total disrespect’

Klitschko besides noted that a United States national died from shrapnel wounds.

The Russian strikes, which lasted passim the night, came arsenic satellite leaders met successful Canada for the Group of Seven (G7) summit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is owed to be the talks connected Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump, left, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer astatine the G7 acme successful Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, connected June 16, 2025 [Reuters]

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha suggested the “massive and brutal strike” against Kyiv was deliberately timed, successful peculiar coating it arsenic an insult to US President Donald Trump.

“Putin does this connected purpose, conscionable during the G7 summit. He sends a awesome of full disrespect to the United States and different partners who person called for an extremity to the killing,” helium wrote connected societal media.

Zelenskyy is seeking to transportation Trump to extend enactment to Ukraine and enactment further unit connected Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold a ceasefire.

Sybiha suggested the Russian president wanted to marque G7 leaders “appear weak”.

“Only beardown steps and existent unit connected Moscow tin beryllium him wrong,” the diplomat added.

Zelenskyy called the overnight strikes “one of the astir horrific attacks” carried retired by Moscow and declared that Putin “does this solely due to the fact that helium tin spend to proceed the war”.

Little progress

Pressed by Trump, Russia and Ukraine person held 2 rounds of nonstop talks implicit a truce but person made small advancement with the objection of agreeing prisoner exchanges and the instrumentality of bodies.

In the meantime, Russia has accrued its bombardments since a daring operation by Ukraine heavy wrong Russia connected June 1 destroyed overmuch of Moscow’s dense bomber fleet.

In its latest attacks, Russia utilized 175 drones and much than 14 cruise missiles, Kyiv’s authorities said connected Telegram.

Officials successful Odesa said 13 radical had been injured successful further attacks connected the Black Sea larboard city.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said connected Tuesday that its aerial defence units had intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian territory.

While Ukraine is pressing for enactment from the West to assistance it support its aerial defences, Russia is suspected of sourcing arms from China, Iran and North Korea.

Reflecting Moscow’s increasing ties with Pyongyang, Putin’s apical information adviser, Sergei Shoigu, was reported by Russian authorities media to person arrived successful the North Korean superior connected Tuesday for talks with person Kim Jong Un.

North Korea is suspected of supplying Russia with ballistic missiles, antitank rockets and millions of rounds of ammunition portion thousands of its soldiers are reported to person died during operations to oust occupying Ukrainian troops from Russia’s borderline portion of Kursk.

It is the 2nd clip that Shoigu has visited North Korea successful little than 2 weeks, and it is seen arsenic a motion that Moscow and Pyongyang are continuing to deepen their alliance. Kim and Putin signed a strategical concern pact past year, including a communal defence pact.

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