“Giant” Russian air raid kills at least six people in the Ukrainian capital Kiev | News of the Russian-Ukraine War

Missiles and drones attack target residential areas in many areas of Kiev.

“Giant” Russian Drone and missile attacks It killed at least six people in the Ukrainian capital and its surrounding area, Ukrainian officials said.

Officials said the Monday morning strike targeted residential areas in many Kiev districts. Attack on the city, Second huge overnight electric shock In a week, Russia suggests it is eager to raise pressure as global attention is controlled by US decisions. participate Israel’s escalate air campaign against Iran.

“Another massive attack on the capital. Probably some waves of enemy drones,” Timur Tokachenko, head of Kiev’s military regime, said in a statement.

“The Russians’ style hasn’t changed, it’s about hitting places where people may be,” Tkachenko said on Telegram. “The residential buildings emerge from the shelter – this is Russian style.

The entrance to the metro station, which is being used as a bomb shelter, was attacked during a massive attack, emergency services said.

The attack caused damage in six of Kiev’s 10 districts, causing injuries to at least 10 people, Home Minister Ihor Klimenko told Telegram.

“At least four people have been killed in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district, where the entire entrance to the residential skyscraper was destroyed,” says Klymenko.

“There are still people under the tile rub,” he added.

Meanwhile, authorities say two people were killed and 10 people, including three children, were injured in a Russian short-range drone attack in the Chernikv region later on Sunday.

Another person died and eight people were injured overnight in Vila Tserkva city, about 85km (53 miles) southwest of Kiev.

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Russia has not commented on the strike. Both sides denied targeting civilians in the war that Russia launched in February 2022, but thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict, most of them Ukrainians.

Russia The most deadly attack Last week, Kiev unleashed hundreds of drones, killed 28 people, injured more than 150 people, and Ukrainian officials said nearly 30 sites had hit a wave of attack.

Ukrainian commander Oleksandr Silsky has pledged to step up the strike against Russia amid increasing attacks on the capital.

“We don’t just sit in defense because this brings nothing and ultimately leads to the fact that we still retreat and lose our people and territory,” he said according to AFP News Agency.

To that end, he added, Ukraine will “increase the scale and depth” of its attacks on Russian military targets.

Russian forces fired at least 47 drones at Ukraine and launched three missiles overnight on Sunday, the Ukrainian Air Force said.

Kiev accused Moscow of intentionally blocking its consent to a peace deal promoted by US President Donald Trump, extending full-scale attacks on the country and seizing more territory.