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The Russian drone and missile attacks were killed overnight, killing at least 10 people and seven reported deaths in the capital Kiev, local officials said Monday.
The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 352 drones and decoys overnight, and 11 ballistic missiles and five cruise missiles. The Air Force said it intercepted or clogged 339 drones and 15 missiles before reaching the target.
The drones and missiles collided with residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure in several Kiev districts early Monday, emergency services said.
The most serious damage was that part of the five-storey apartment building collapsed and emergency crews competed to find people who were believed to be trapped under the sign.
Six people have died in the district, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Ten other people, including a pregnant woman, were rescued from a nearby skyscraper that was also heavily damaged by the blast.
Overall, according to the city’s military junta principal, Timur Tukachenko, he was injured in an attack on Kiev, including four or more children.
Another person reportedly died and eight others were reportedly injured overnight in Vila Tserkva city, about 85 kilometres southwest of the capital.
And later Sunday night, two people were killed in a Russian short-range drone attack and another 10 people were injured in the Chernikv region, authorities said. Three children were among the injured, according to Viacheslav Chaus, head of the regional government.
Ukrainian President Voldy Mie Zelensky criticized the latest attack as “completely cynical” and expressed sadness to the victims’ families.
The overnight strike until Monday comes almost a week after combining Russian attacks against Ukraine Last Tuesday He killed 28 people in Kyiv. Most of the victims died after the residential buildings where they collapsed after being directly attacked by a missile strike.
Zelenskyy called the attack one of the greatest artillery fires of the war. It is now in its fourth year.
The Russian military is trying to drive deep into Ukraine as part of a new summer push along the 1,000-kilometer frontline, and also smashed private territories on long-distance strikes with apparent bids to weaken public morale.
Two direct peace negotiations between Moscow and Kiev failed to make progress by ending the full-scale Russian invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that both sides agreed to hold another argument soon.
Additional sources •AP
