According to the Interior Ministry, a total of 27 destinations were met in various districts in Kiev, including residential buildings, educational institutions and important infrastructure. 14 people were killed. Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 68 of the 114 injuries had been hospitalized.
Previously, Klitschko had announced that a 62-year-old US citizen died in a building in the Solomyanskyj district. The Russian drones had attacked the capital “from three directions”. Fire broke out in several quarters from Kyiv.
“According to my memory, that was probably the most hellish night in our neighborhood,” said 20-year-old student Alina Schtompel of the AFP news agency. According to the Ukrainian energy company DTEK, more than a thousand households were cut off from the power supply.
President Selenskyj said that the entire section of a block of houses had been destroyed. Helpers are in use to save people who are buried under the ruins. It was still unclear how many people are locked under the ruins, he added.
With “more than 440 drones and 32 rockets” it was “one of the most terrible attacks” to the Ukrainian capital, the Ukrainian head of state said. Russian President Vladimir Putin wants “that the war continues”, Russia is doing “pure terrorism” with his attacks.
The Ministry of Defense in Moscow, on the other hand, assured that the Russian army had shot at military and industrial locations in the Kiev and Saporischschja regions during the night. Between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, she “intercepted and destroyed” 198 Ukrainian drones.
According to Selenskyj, other regions were also attacked in Ukraine. The local authorities each reported a dead man from the South Ukrainian port city of Odessa, the southern region and the northern region of Sumy.
The head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andrij Jermak, accused the “civilized world” not to react appropriately to Russia’s “war against civilians”. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha accused Putin that he had “deliberately with the middle of the G7 summit” to make the leading industrialized nations gathered “weak”.
The efforts for a ceasefire in Ukraine have so far failed. In the recent talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, Moscow had rejected corresponding demands and instead asked Ukraine to cede large parts of the country to Russia and buried their plans for NATO accession.
Selenskyj wanted to talk to Trump on the edge of the G7 summit in Canadian Kananaski about the Ukraine War and the purchase of military equipment from the USA. However, the US President left the meeting early on Monday – according to the White House because of the massive military conflict between Israel and Iran.
To call for stricter sanctions against Russia, he had previously said: “Sanctions cost us a lot of money.” The US President prefers to “go ahead” the Europeans on this question.
The Federal Foreign Office in Berlin suggested that Russia exploit the escalating conflict in the Middle East for its purposes. “While the world is looking at the Middle East, Putin continues to bomb Ukraine”, it explained on Tuesday in online service X. Putin “Diplomacy as a mere backdrop”, he did not want “, but the surrender of Ukraine”. “We will further increase the pressure on him,” announced the Federal Foreign Office.
