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 folks 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 struggle in Ukraine.
Tymur Tkachenko, the pinnacle of Kyiv’s metropolis navy administration, mentioned a 14-year-old lady was amongst these reported killed, citing preliminary data.
A five-storey residential constructing within the metropolis’s Darnytskyi district was hit straight. “The whole lot is destroyed,” Tkachenko mentioned.
“Tonight, Kyiv is beneath huge assault by the Russian terrorist state,” he mentioned.
Native media outlet The Kyiv Impartial mentioned a minimum of 4 folks had been confirmed killed, and officers anticipate the variety of casualties to rise.
One other strike in central Kyiv left a significant street strewn with shattered glass, and rescue groups had been working to tug folks trapped beneath rubble from some 20 affected areas throughout town.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko additionally known as it a “huge assault” by Russia, including that two youngsters had been additionally among the many injured.
Officers supplied information organisations with an extended checklist of buildings that had suffered injury, together with a number of high-rise condominium blocks, and images and video posted on-line confirmed flats ablaze and smoke billowing from buildings.
The assault comes amid so-far failed efforts by President Trump to persuade Putin to stop his struggle 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 adverse alerts from Moscow” relating to negotiations to finish the struggle, urging further “strain” to “pressure Russia to take actual steps” to stop preventing.
