Ukrainian authorities describe Russia’s missile and drone assault as ‘huge’, with a number of areas of Kyiv hit.
Printed On 28 Aug 2025
An in a single day Russian drone and missile assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has killed a minimum of 4 individuals and wounded greater than 20 others, officers mentioned.
Highly effective explosions rocked town into the early hours of Thursday morning, illuminating the sky and forsaking columns of smoke as Russian projectiles broken and destroyed buildings in a number of districts of town.
The assault was the primary main mixed Russian drone and missile assault to strike Kyiv since United States President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska earlier this month to debate ending the warfare in Ukraine.
Tymur Tkachenko, the top of Kyiv’s metropolis army administration, mentioned a 14-year-old woman was amongst these reported killed, citing preliminary data.
A five-storey residential constructing within the metropolis’s Darnytskyi district was hit immediately. “All the pieces is destroyed,” Tkachenko mentioned.
“Tonight, Kyiv is underneath huge assault by the Russian terrorist state,” he mentioned.
Native media outlet The Kyiv Impartial mentioned a minimum of 4 individuals have been confirmed killed, and officers count on the variety of casualties to rise.
One other strike in central Kyiv left a significant street strewn with shattered glass, and rescue groups have been working to drag individuals trapped beneath rubble from some 20 affected places throughout town.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko additionally referred to as it a “huge assault” by Russia, including that two kids have been additionally among the many injured.
Officers offered information organisations with a protracted record of buildings that had suffered injury, together with a number of high-rise residence blocks, and photographs and video posted on-line confirmed residences ablaze and smoke billowing from buildings.
The assault comes amid so-far failed efforts by President Trump to persuade Putin to stop his warfare on Ukraine, and as each Moscow and Kyiv commerce blame over a diplomatic deadlock in efforts to finish the preventing.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Wednesday that members of his administration would meet with US officers in New York on Friday.
The Ukrainian chief mentioned he noticed “very boastful and unfavourable alerts from Moscow” relating to negotiations to finish the warfare, urging further “stress” to “pressure Russia to take actual steps” to stop preventing.