Not less than six individuals have been killed and greater than 50 others have been wounded in a barrage of Russian drones and missiles that struck a number of districts of Kyiv and introduced down an house block, Ukrainian officers mentioned.
One of many useless was a six-year-old boy, and Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s army administration, mentioned the dying toll might rise, with injury in additional than two dozen places.
The high-pitched hum of Russian drones could possibly be heard for hours over the capital, interrupted by the occasional loud thunder clap of a missile strike.
Russian assaults have continued regardless of US President Donald Trump’s risk to impose more durable sanctions on Moscow if Vladimir Putin doesn’t comply with a ceasefire by 8 August.
Russia fired 309 drones and cruise missiles in the course of the evening, in accordance with Ukraine’s air drive, and though air defences did handle to destroy among the incoming hearth, there have been quite a few hits.
A red-orange glow indicated destruction on the bottom.
Roman Petushkov/International Photos Ukraine“One of many strikes hit a residential high-rise constructing, a whole entrance was destroyed. Rescuers are clearing the rubble,” mentioned Ukraine’s inside minister Igor Klymenko.
Three of the fatalities have been on the web site of the house block.
“The world has but once more seen Russia’s response to our, America’s and Europe’s need for peace. Extra demonstrative homicide,” mentioned President Volodymyr Zelensky. “That is why peace with out energy is unattainable.”
Kyiv’s Sviatoshynsky and Solomyansky districts have been hit hardest within the assault, the place one particular person was killed and 20 extra have been injured, in accordance with Klymenko.
The home windows of a hospital ward for youngsters in Shevchenkivsky district have been blown out by a shockwave, the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, mentioned on Telegram.
One in all Kyiv’s greater schooling establishments, a college and a kindergarten have been additionally broken in the course of the assault.
Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha mentioned it was a “horrible morning” in Kyiv, and that there are “nonetheless individuals below the rubble”.
Sybiha added that Trump had been “very beneficiant and affected person” with Putin, however now it was time to place “most stress on Moscow” by way of sanctions.
ReutersEarlier in July, Trump set a 50-day deadline for the Kremlin to achieve a truce with Kyiv or danger financial penalties.
On Monday, throughout a go to to the UK, Trump minimize that deadline to “ten or 12 days”, expressing his disapproval at Putin’s actions in Ukraine, greater than three years since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of the nation.
Trump did not say whether or not he felt the Russian president had been “mendacity” to him, however he mentioned there was a discrepancy between Putin’s rhetoric throughout their one-on-one conversations and the missiles “lobbed” on Ukrainian cities.
“We have been going to have a ceasefire and perhaps peace… and swiftly you have got missiles flying into Kyiv and different locations,” Trump mentioned.
