Massive Russian air attack on Kyiv kills at least nine overnight

A Russian missile attack against kyiv in Thorsday, on April 24, killed at least nine and injured the dishes in one of the most mortal strikes in the Ukrainian capital since Russia launched its invasion more than three years ago. Ukraine has been mistreated by Russian air attacks through war, but mortal attacks on kyiv, which is better protected by aerial defenses than other cities, are less common.

The attacks show even more doubts about the efforts of the USA. To push Russia and Ukraine to accept a high fire, hours after Donald Trump lashed out at the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for refusing to accept the occupation of Moscow of the Crimean Peninsula as a condition for peace. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has not yet responded to Zelensky’s sacrifice to completely stop air attacks against civil objectives and last month rejected a Uskrainian call for a high full and conditional fire.

The strong explosions had sounded on the Ukrainian capital around 1 in the morning, the local time after the sirens of air attacks are classified in kyiv warning the residents who went to the shelters. Through the night, rescue workers were studying through the debris of destroyed buildings and addressing fires in apartments. At least nine people died and more than 60 wounded, said the Ukrainian state emergency service.

“Russia has launched a mass combined strike on Kyiv,” said the agency in Telegram. “According to preliminary data, nine people were killed, 63 injured.” Among 42 hospitalized people there were six children, he added. The photos published by the agency showed first response using search dogs to travel debris batteries for smoking, and the medications that take an injured man to the back of an ambulance on a stretcher.

‘Search people’

The strikes reached five districts throughout the capital, causing fires in garages and administrative buildings that have been extinguished. The attack also damaged residential buildings. “The search for people under the rubble is underway,” emergency services said.

Kyiv was last hit by missiles in early April, when at least three people were injured. It has the objective of sporadic attacks since Russia launched its large -scale invasion in February 2022.

Russia has launched some of its most mortal and shameless air attacks in Ukraine during the last month, defuting Trump’s impulse to achieve a rapid ending for blood spill. A ballistic missile attack in the center of the northeast city of Sumy killed at least 35 on April 13. An attack against the hometown of Zensky of Kryvyi Rig in early April killed at least 19, including nine children, after a missile criticized the resident resident resident.

The Ukrainian leader had asked for a “high, complete and unconditional fire.” “Stop the murders is the number one task,” Zensky said on social networks, such as his senior officials with European and American officials in London.

‘Killing field’

Hours before the attack, Trump had said that a peace agreement was “very close”, and effectively closed with Moscow, but accused Zensky of being “more difficult” to negotiate. The refusal of the Ukrainian president to accept the terms of the United States to end the conflict, which began with the large-scale invasion of Russia in 2022- “will do nothing more than to prolong the” murder field “,” he said. “I think we have an agreement with Russia. We have to reach an agreement with Zensky,” Trump told reporters. “I thought it could be more important to deal with Zensky. Until now it is the hardest bone.”

Russia also launched a large -scale attack in the city of Northeast or Jharkiv during the night. The mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, said that at least seven missiles had been fired to the city. “One of the most beaten strikes in a definitively populated residential area … Two people were injured there. The inspection of enemy strike sites is underway,” said Terekhov, urging the city’s residents to “be careful.”

Separately, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 87 Ukrainian drones demolished during the night, including 45 in Crimea.