Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones early Saturday morning, injuring at least 11 people just one day before talks between Ukraine and the United States, local authorities said.
Explosions were heard across the capital for hours as ballistic missiles and drones struck the city. The attack began in the early hours of Saturday and continued into daylight, AP reported.
The assault came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preparing to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday for further talks aimed at ending the nearly four-year war. Zelenskyy said the discussions are expected to cover security guarantees and territorial issues in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Two children were among those injured in the attack, which struck seven locations across Kyiv, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, in a statement on Telegram. A fire broke out in an 18-story residential building in the city’s Dnipro district, and emergency crews were dispatched to extinguish the flames.
A 24-story residential building in the Darnytsia district was also hit, Tkachenko said, while additional fires erupted in the Obolonskyi and Holosiivskyi districts.
In the wider Kyiv region, strikes hit industrial and residential buildings, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service. In the Vyshhorod area, emergency teams rescued a person found beneath the rubble of a destroyed house.
