An in a single day Russian strike on Kyiv killed 14 individuals and wounded greater than 100 others, native officers within the Ukrainian capital mentioned early Tuesday, as Moscow launched a whole lot of drones and missiles into the nation.
It was not instantly clear whether or not others could also be trapped beneath the rubble, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned in an replace on the Telegram messaging app.
Emergency personnel had been working at a number of websites, together with a residential constructing within the Solomianskyi district, the place “a complete entrance collapsed,” Klitschko mentioned. The mayor posted a video to Telegram exhibiting what he mentioned had been Russian cluster munitions discovered at one of many affect websites within the capital.
Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned in a put up to Telegram that the assault consisted of 440 drones and 32 missiles — of which 402 drones and 26 missiles had been shot down or in any other case neutralized. The air pressure reported impacts in 10 areas and downed particles in 34 areas.
Ukrainian rescuers conduct a search and rescue work in a closely broken residential constructing following the Russian missile strike in Kyiv on June 17, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the nationwide assault killed not less than 15 individuals had been killed. Kyiv bore the brunt of the strikes, Zelenskyy wrote, with impacts additionally reported in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv.
At the very least one particular person was killed in Odesa and 17 others injured, in response to a Telegram put up by native Governor Oleg Kiper.
“Such assaults are pure terrorism,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “And the entire world, the U.S. and Europe should lastly react the way in which a civilized society reacts to terrorists.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Zelenskyy mentioned, “is doing this solely as a result of he can afford to proceed the conflict. He needs the conflict to proceed. It’s dangerous when the highly effective of this world flip a blind eye to this. We’re contacting all companions in any respect doable ranges so that there’s an applicable response. It’s the terrorists who ought to really feel the ache, not regular, peaceable individuals.”
The assaults got here as G7 leaders gathered in Canada, the place Russia’s ongoing conflict on Ukraine is certainly one of a number of key subjects of debate. President Donald Trump on Monday instructed that Russia — beforehand a member of the group when it was often known as the G8 — mustn’t have been expelled kind the bloc in 2014 after its invasion and annexation of Crimea.
Putin “sends a sign of whole disrespect to the US and different companions who’ve known as for an finish to the killing,” Ukraine’s Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha mentioned in a put up on X. “Putin’s purpose could be very easy: make the G7 leaders seem weak. Solely sturdy steps and actual strain on Moscow can show him flawed.”
ABC Information’ Yulia Drozd, Patrick Reevell and Ellie Kaufman contributed to this report.
