Russian strikes killed at least four people in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and wounded at least 24 others, city officials said on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to operational information, the number of dead has increased to three,\u201d the city\u2019s military administration announced. Among the dead was a 14-year-old girl, said the administration\u2019s head, Tymur Tkachenko. Another of the dead was a child, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Casualty numbers were expected to rise. A five-storey residential building in the Darnytskyi district was hit directly. \u201cEverything is destroyed,\u201d Tkachenko said. A strike in central Kyiv left a major road strewn with shattered glass.<\/p>\n
The attack affected more than 20 locations across the capital, local authorities said. Rescue teams were on site to pull people from the rubble.<\/p>\n
Powerful explosions were heard by Agence France-Presse journalists in Kyiv on Thursday as the attack place, the news agency reported. Ukrainian officials warned of a \u201cmassive\u201d Russian attack. According to the Associated Press, it was the first major combined Russian mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv since Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin<\/a> in Alaska on 15 August.<\/p>\n The explosions illuminated the night sky and left behind a column of smoke. At least one missile appeared to be shot down as red tracer bullets sailed upwards.<\/p>\n Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said a \u201cmassive attack on the capital\u201d took place. Air defence forces were operating, he said, urging residents to remain in shelters.<\/p>\n An AFP journalist witnessed about 100 people taking refuge in a subway station, with some lying in sleeping bags and others holding their pets. Three young people were seen anxiously waiting out the bombardment in an underpass.<\/p>\n Diplomatic efforts to end the war have continued in recent weeks following meetings between the US president, Donald Trump, and his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts. There has been little tangible progress, as the Kremlin has ducked Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s offer to meet one-on-one with Vladimir Putin and each day piled on caveats<\/a> for any peace deal.<\/p>\n With Agence France-Presse and Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian strikes killed at least four people in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and wounded at least 24 others,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-97986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}