The Minister of the Interior said that at least seven people were killed and many wounded in Russian missiles and Russian aircraft in the Kiev region of Kiev.
In a post on social media, Ihor Klymento said that residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure have been beaten.
The mayor of Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko said that at least six people died in a tall building in the capital 22 others were injured in the city.
President Voludmir Zelinski is traveling to London on Monday for talks with Prime Minister Kiir Starmer on military support in the United Kingdom to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that the Ukrainian Air Force “in the latest 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles targeted Ukrainian territory, most of them in the Kiev region.
Russia has intensified its air attacks against Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, as it has sent large waves of missiles, drones and cats aimed at overcoming Ukrainian air defenses.
It is a tactic fighting the Ukrainian forces to defense.
Several thousand residents of Kiev were forced into the airspace in the early hours of Monday morning, when drones flew in their sky and the effects of the city were shaken.
The emergency service in Ukraine participated in footage that shows that the traumatic population is removed from a tall, devastating building that is still burning.
Along with the dead in the capital, one person had died after a drone hit a hospital in Bella, Sirkva, to the south.
Speaking to journalists this week in the capital, Ukrainian leader Olexander Serski pledged to intensify Ukrainian strikes on Russia.
“We will only sit in defense because this does not bring anything and eventually leads to the fact that we are still retreating and losing people and regions,” he said.
It comes because the capital is still in Russian attacks overnight on Tuesday, which left at least 28 people And more than 100 wounds.
The attack was among the largest in the capital since the beginning of the full war of Russia, which started in February 2022.
Diplomatic efforts to end the war have stopped for three years. The last direct talks between the two sides ended almost three weeks ago, with only agreement on the limited exchanges of prisoners and the bodies of the dead.
New talks were not scheduled.
Zelinski was to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Group of Seven conference last week, but the meeting was canceled after Trump left the conference early in the midst of the escalating crisis in the Middle East.
Zelensky is scheduled to attend dinner during the NATO summit in the Netherlands, which starts on Tuesday.
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2025-06-23 10:19:00
