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An overnight attack on Ukraine’s capital killed at least 14 people, the head of Kyiv’s military administration said early on Tuesday, with Russian strikes reported across the country.
“According to initial reports, there are already 14 deaths in Kyiv,” Tymur Tkachenko said, adding that rescuers were still searching the rubble for victims.
Waves of Russian drones and missiles struck districts across Kyiv, damaging an apartment building and sparking fires, city officials said. Reuters witnesses said drones swarmed over the capital and they heard what seemed to be missiles overhead. An air raid alert remained in effect for more than seven hours.
Other parts of the country also came under attack, including areas outside the capital and the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, where the regional governor reported at least four strikes.
The Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said many casualties were in the Solomianskyi district, near the city centre, where a drone damaged the top floor of an apartment building and other non-residential areas.
Tkachenko noted 12 strikes in five districts. Among the targets was a kindergarten in the city’s eastern edge.
Waves of drones had attacked Solomianskyi district, he said.
“This is a very difficult night,” he wrote, adding that there had been power cuts in some areas.
Ukraine and Russia have launched mass drone attacks in recent weeks even 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.
Klitschko reported that a 62-year-old US citizen had died in a building opposite a site where medics were providing assistance. He gave no further details and it was not clear how the man had died.
In Moscow, the mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said two Ukrainian drones approached the city and air defences responded. The city’s airports were briefly closed.
