Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s forces hit apartments in Kyiv with overnight drone attack, officials say
Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Kyiv, killing at least three people, including a five-year-old, said the Ukrainian interior ministry.
The drone hit apartment buildings and sparked several fires throughout Ukraine’s capital despite agreeing to a limited ceasefire, officials said.
Emergency services were dispatched to Kyiv’s historic Podil district after drones hit two high-rise apartment buildings, said Timur Tkachenko, the head of the capital’s military administration.
A woman died after drone debris sparked a fire in a high-rise residential building in Dniprovskyi district, the emergency service said on Telegram. Another person died in the Holosiivskyi district.
Kyiv, its surrounding region and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts on Saturday night.
It came a day after Vladimir Putin’s forces launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three members of the same family and wounding 14 others, according to officials, who said residential buildings, cars and communal buildings were set on fire.
Kyiv and Moscow agreed in principle on Wednesday to a limited ceasefire after US president Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders.
