Kiev, Aug 28: A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital early Thursday killed at least three people and injured 24, local authorities said.Among the dead was a 14-year-old girl, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s city administration, citing preliminary information. The numbers are expected to rise.
A five-storey residential building in the Darnytskyi district was hit directly. “Everything is destroyed,” Tkachenko said. A strike in central Kyiv left a major road strewn with shattered glass.
The attack affected over 20 locations across the capital, local authorities said. Rescue teams were on site to pull people trapped underneath the rubble.
Thursday’s attack is the first major combined Russian mass drone and missile attack to strike Kyiv since US President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this month to discuss ending the three-year war in Ukraine.
While a diplomatic push to end the war appeared to gain momentum shortly after that meeting, very few details have emerged about the next steps.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hoping for harsher US sanctions to cripple the Russian economy if Putin does not demonstrate seriousness about ending the war.