At least nine people have been killed in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv, local officials said.
A further 28 people were injured in the attack on the Ukrainian capital on Saturday morning, according to the country’s State Emergency Service.
Moscow has escalated deadly ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv recently, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to say that missile interceptors are urgently needed.
The strikes come two days after a suspected Russian cruise missile landed in Poland during a widespread attack on Ukraine that killed at least eight people, including six members of one family.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the capital had come under a ballistic missile attack on Saturday, with AFP reporting more than 10 explosions.
Fires broke out across the city and power cuts were reported in some areas.
Klitschko said a residential building in Shevchenkivskyi was partially destroyed, trapping people inside.
The emergency services said at least seven people were killed in a strike in the Darnytskyi district. Another 14 were injured, including two children, it reported.
In Solomyanskyi district, two people died and eight were injured, including two children, as a five-storey residential building was partially destroyed, officials said.
A missile landed near the Lithuanian embassy, breaking windows and scattering debris in the compound, Lithuania’s foreign ministry said.
Source:
www.bbc.co.uk
