The Russian attack on Kyiv kills 9, say the Ukrainian officials

Russian forces launched a major missile and drone attack on kyiv on Thursday, killing at least nine people in the city and injuring more than 60s, Ukrainian authorities said in the deadliest strike in the Ukrainian capital since last summer.

Explosions were heard throughout the night; Clouds of brown smoke got up above the city while the sun was rising. A missile struck a two -story building with eight apartments where the emergencies hunted the survivors on Thursday morning.

A five -story building next to it has lost all its windows. People stood outside, fixing the damage and speaking on their phone, telling their loved ones that they were alive. No military target was visible nearby.

A spokesperson for the emergency service, Svitlana Vodolaha, told journalists at 8:30 am local time: “Absolutely, we dug another person. Alive!”

President Volodymyr Zelensky, from Ukraine, said that nearly 70 missiles, including ballistics, and 150 attack drones had targeted cities across the country, although kyiv was the hardest.

“It is extremely important that everyone in the world sees and understands what is really going on,” said Mr. Zelensky in an article on social networks, adding that he would visit South Africa and return to Ukraine after meeting the South African president.

The attack on Kyiv was one of the deadliest in the war and the worst since last July, when the Russian missiles killed 41 people in Ukraine, Destroy a children’s hospital in Kyiv and kill 21 people throughout the city. Recent fatal missile strikes have also targeted the cities of Amounts And Kryvyi Rih.

This comes at a crucial time of war, which started with the large -scale invasion of Russia in February 2022. At Easter, a temporary truce called by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia seemed to be more Public relations stuntman That a real ceasefire along the front lines, but there has always been no drone or missile attack against Ukrainian cities. Wednesday, peace talks planned in London have been demotedlargely because the United States has decided not to attend.

Since its entry into office in January, the Trump administration has echoed the Kremlin discussion points in the war and on Ukraine, a reversal of the previous American policy.

During last week, the Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to move away from the peace process. And on Wednesday, President Trump and his best collaborators demanded that kyiv accept a plan designed by the Americans who apparently grant Russia the whole territory he acquired during the war, while only offering kyiv only of waves insurance on the country’s future security.

So far, Mr. Zelensky has rejected such an agreement.

Andrew E. Kramer contributed Kharkiv, Ukraine, and Oleksandra Mykolyyshyn From Kyiv, Ukraine.