Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv early on Monday, killing at least 11 people and heavily damaging apartment blocks, officials said, in an attack just a few days after the deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital this year.
Rescue crews were pulling residents from buildings shattered by the overnight barrage, Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post on Telegram.
Klitschko said the death toll in the capital had risen to 11, with 46 people wounded throughout the city.
Another person was killed and 15 were injured in the surrounding Kyiv region. The southern Black Sea port of Odesa also came under attack, with at least one person injured, local officials said.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia used 68 missiles, including 23 ballistic and six super and hypersonic missiles, as well as 351 drones in the attack. Air force units shot down or neutralized 37 missiles and 326 drones, but none of the ballistic missiles or super and hypersonic missiles, the air force data showed.
Neighboring Poland briefly scrambled fighter jets as a preventive measure.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday it carried out a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s capital and other locations. The ministry also said military and energy facilities were hit in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as well as military airfields in several other Ukrainian regions.
Ukraine launched its own drone attacks on Russia, damaging the Baltic Sea ports of Vysotsk and Ust-Luga, a major oil exporting outlet, Russian authorities said. Ukrainian attacks also caused a power blackout in the Crimean city of Sevastopol, home to Russia‘s Black Sea Fleet.
The attack on Kyiv came days after 31 people were killed in Russian strikes on the capital city on Thursday — the deadliest strike on the city this year.
It also comes ahead of a NATO summit in Turkey this week, where U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make a renewed push to end the war, which began with Russia‘s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
