Russian forces launched a missile \u2060attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in \u2060at least \u2060two districts of the Ukrainian capital, the city\u2019s mayor said. Kyiv\u2019s \u2060military administration said one person had been injured. Witnesses reported explosions in the city amid air alerts that sounded after 2am.<\/p>\n
Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on \u2060Telegram, said falling \u200bdebris had \u200ccaused a \u200cfire in a non-residential part of \u200ca northern suburb. Several cars were on fire, and another fire had broken out in an area just south of the city \u200ccentre, he said. Unofficial \u200bTelegram channels posted photos of what were described as market stalls ablaze. Russia \u200chas in \u200brecent \u200bweeks been staging intensive air attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n
Ukraine says long-range strikes hit a Russian military airfield and a rocket centre \u2060that supports \u2060Russia\u2019s nascent Starlink-style satellite \u200binternet network. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said Flamingo cruise missiles struck the rocket facility, about 900km from Ukraine\u2019s border, as part of Kyiv\u2019s campaign to pressure Moscow to end \u2060the war by targeting sites deep inside Russia.\u201cIt is important that Russia\u2019s war potential be reduced. Peace is needed, and this must be evident in Russia \u2013 through concrete damage \u2060to specific facilities,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X. He said the airfield hosted aircraft used to attack Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s armed forces said direct hits were \u200crecorded at the airfield in Russia\u2019s \u200cNizhny Novgorod region and the Progress rocket centre in Samara region, sparking fires \u200cat both sites. The Samara plant produces rockets used to launch satellites for the Rassvet broadband network, which Russia is developing as an alternative to SpaceX\u2019s Starlink. Starlink operates in Ukraine but not in Russia, giving Kyiv an advantage in drone operations and battlefield communications.<\/p>\n In Samara region, local officials said air defences had repelled a \u201cmassive missile attack\u201d. \u201cSamara\u2019s industrial infrastructure \u200csustained localised damage,\u201d Ivan Noskov, head of the regional capital, said in an online post. Emergency services were working at the scene, he said.<\/p>\n Russia has \u2060asked Washington and \u2060Ankara \u2060to explain reports \u200bof possible plans \u2060to transfer to Kyiv a \u201csubstantial \u2060arsenal\u201d \u200bof \u200cUS weapons \u200cand ammunition \u200cheld by Turkey, a spokesperson for Russia\u2019s foreign ministry said \u200con Saturday. Such a transfer would \u200bcause \u201cserious harm \u2026 to our bilateral relations \u2060with Washington and \u200bAnkara,\u201d the spokesperson \u200bsaid in \u200ba \u200cstatement.<\/p>\n A Russian strike on an apartment block in south-eastern Ukraine on Saturday killed a three-month-old baby and wounded 11 people, local officials said. Drones hit the building in the town of Marhanets, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s defence \u200bministry on Saturday said in the \u200cpast 24 hours its drones \u200band missiles had \u200bstruck Ukrainian logistics centres and energy and transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army, as well as assembly workshops for long-range drones and drone boats.<\/p>\n