At least 14 people have been injured in an overnight drone attack in Kiev, which also damaged rail infrastructure and set buildings and cars on fire across the city, the mayor said, while separate explosions were reported in a city near Moscow.
The attack was the latest in a series of Russian airstrikes on Kiev, which have intensified in recent weeks and include some of the deadliest attacks of the war on the city of three million.
Twelve of the injured were taken to hospital and two were treated at the scene, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram post. Damage was reported in six of Kyiv's 10 districts on both sides of the Dnieper River, which divides the city in two, and falling drone debris set fire to a medical facility in the leafy Holosiivskyi district, Klitschko said.
He said two fires had broken out in the Svyatoshynskyi district in the west of the city when debris from one drone fell on a warehouse, while debris from another drone set fire to cars in the courtyard of a 16-story residential building.
The drones also caused two fires on a roof and in a courtyard in buildings in the neighboring Solomanskyi district, and a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, he said.
Witnesses reported a series of explosions and continuous gunfire as air defense units attempted to shoot down the drones. Videos on local media showed residents lying down in subway stations in anticipation of further attacks.
Ukraine's state railway, Ukrzaliznytsia, the country's largest carrier, said on Telegram that the attack on Kiev damaged rail infrastructure in the city, diverting a number of passenger trains and causing delays.
The new wave of attacks comes hours after a nearly hour-long phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump acknowledged that no progress had been made toward a ceasefire agreement, citing the diplomatic stalemate and rising tension on the Ukrainian front.
Putin, for his part, confirmed that Russia had no intention of backing down from its stated goals.
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