Russia launches ‘horrific’ attack on Kyiv

Waves of Russian rocket and drone strikes person killed astatine slightest 15 radical and injured 116 others successful Ukraine.

Most of the casualties from the overnight onslaught connected Tuesday were reported successful Kyiv, with the superior suffering “one of the astir horrific attacks,” it has seen since the commencement of the war, arsenic Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enactment it.

“An full conception of a artifact of flats” was destroyed and rescuers were searching nether the rubble for imaginable survivors, the president said.

Approximately 27 locations successful Kyiv were hit, according to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.

Elsewhere, 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 10 wounded successful a onslaught connected Odesa.

Zelenskyy said that a full of 440 drones and 32 missiles were utilized successful the attacks nationwide.

“Right present successful Kyiv, efforts are nether mode to rescue radical from beneath the rubble of an mean residential gathering – it’s inactive unclear however galore stay trapped,” helium said.

Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported the decease of a United States national successful the capital.

More than 3 years into its full-scale penetration of Ukraine, Moscow has continued its attacks contempt efforts by the US to broker a ceasefire.

Talks person stalled, with Moscow rejecting the “unconditional” truce demanded by Kyiv and its European allies. Ukraine has dismissed Russia’s demands arsenic “ultimatums”.