Waves of Russian drones and missiles struck districts across the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Tuesday, damaging an apartment building, sparking fires and injuring up to 16 people, city officials said.
\nReuters witnesses said drones swarmed over the capital and they heard what appeared to be missiles overhead. An air raid alert remained in effect more than seven hours after it had been proclaimed.
\nOther parts of the country also came under attack, including areas outside the capital and the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, where the regional governor reported at least four strikes.
\nKyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that most of the 16 injured were in Solomianskyi district, near the city center, where a drone damaged the top floor of an apartment building and other non-residential areas.
\nTymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv\u2019s military administration, noted 12 strikes in five districts. Among the targets was a kindergarten in the city\u2019s eastern edge.
\n\u201cThe capital is coming under a combined attack,\u201d Tkachenko wrote. \u201cThe Russians are deploying missiles and strike drones. There are fires in different districts and emergency crews are at work.\u201d
\nWaves of drones had attacked Solomianskyi district, he said. \u201cThis is a very difficult night,\u201d he wrote, adding that there had been power cuts in some areas.
\nBoth Ukraine and Russia have launched mass drone attacks in recent weeks as the two sides have held two sessions of direct talks on ending the more than three-year-old war. The talks have produced agreements on freeing prisoners of war and returning the bodies of fallen soldiers, but little more.
\n\u201cMore strikes by Russian drones on residential buildings in Kyiv,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram. \u201cRussia is continuing its war on civilians.\u201d
\nKlitschko reported that a 62-year-old US citizen had died in a dwelling opposite a site where medics were providing assistance. He gave no further details and it was not clear how the man had died.
\nIn Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian air defense units had repelled an attack on the city by two Ukrainian drones. The city\u2019s airports were briefly closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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