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\nMoscow has ramped up its long-range strikes across Ukraine<\/p>\n
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital killed at least nine people and wounded more than two dozen others, local officials have said hours after Kyiv’s mayor had warned of a ballistic missile attack.<\/p>\n
Russia and Ukraine have ramped up attacks on each other in recent months.<\/p>\n
As Moscow has increased its long-range strikes on Ukrainian towns and cities, Kyiv has pressed its allies for air defence support.<\/p>\n
The United Nations found June was the deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine since April 2022.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s state emergency service said the latest Russian attack struck five regions of Kyiv, killing nine people and wounding 28 others, including four children.<\/p>\n
“Explosions in the city. Kyiv is under ballistic missile attack. Stay in shelters!” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote earlier on Telegram.<\/p>\n
AFP journalists reported hearing more than ten explosions in a row, triggering car alarms on the streets.<\/p>\n
\nMoscow has ramped up its long-range strikes across Ukraine<\/p>\n
Russia’s defence ministry said that it had launched a “massive strike” in the Kyiv region, targeting “military-industrial complex enterprises and logistics centres”.<\/p>\n
In Kyiv’s Darnytsky district, the attacks damaged multiple buildings and vehicles, with authorities reporting seven people killed and 14 wounded in the area.<\/p>\n
Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in Solomiansky district, where strikes damaged a five-storey residential building.<\/p>\n
“Everything was smashed, the windows, everything,” a 75-year-old resident told AFP of her apartment.
“I can barely stand. I don’t know how I’m going to get through all this.”<\/p>\n
Another resident said that her plan was to leave.<\/p>\n
“You can’t stay here after something like this,” the 46-year-old said. “What guarantee is there that it won\u2019t happen again?”<\/p>\n
More than 100 rescued<\/p>\n
Photos posted to Telegram by the state emergency service showed firefighters spraying water into what appeared to be a residential building.<\/p>\n
Other images showed rescue workers with flashlights sifting through rubble.<\/p>\n
The emergency service said yesterday morning that 105 people in Kyiv had been rescued from impacted areas.<\/p>\n
While Kyiv has faced near-nightly attacks, Ukraine has also escalated its retaliatory strikes on Russia in recent months, partly to pressure Moscow to the negotiating table after nearly four-and-a-half years of war.<\/p>\n
Russia’s ministry of defence has said that its air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 274 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n
And Russian online retail giant Wildberries said yesterday that its logistics facility in Volgograd caught fire after an overnight attack – the latest in a series of strikes on the company’s facilities.<\/p>\n
Kyiv has accused the e-commerce giant – which employs thousands of people and has become a key part of the economy – of storing drone parts and helping the Russian army.<\/p>\n
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\nUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump in the White House this week<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US President Donald Trump this week for talks.<\/p>\n
Mr Zelensky said following the meeting that Mr Trump had agreed to license the production of Patriot missiles to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
But the US president said yesterday that Washington would have to be “very careful” about giving Ukraine a license to produce the missiles.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia’s attacks show that Ukraine “urgently needs additional air and missile defence systems and interceptors”.<\/p>\n
“It is the battle for the skies that will define the trajectory of this war. The stronger the air shield over Ukraine, the closer peace becomes,” he said.<\/p>\n