A missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early Sunday injured at least three people and caused several blazes, the city’s mayor said, two days after a Russian strike killed 18 people in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown.
Vitali Klitschko said paramedics had been sent to two districts in Kyiv, while the Ukrainian air force said missiles had entered the northern Chernihiv region.
“Explosions in the capital. Air defence is in operation,” Klitschko said on Telegram.
“The missile attack on Kyiv continues. Stay in shelters!”
He added that three people were injured so far, while fires broke out in non-residential buildings and eight cars were damaged.
The attacks come as US President Donald Trump pushes for a partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, more than three years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion, and seeks a thaw in ties with the Kremlin.
Poland’s military said it and allied forces had taken to the skies in response to Russian strikes across the border in western Ukraine, with ground-based air defence systems on high alert.
“Due to the intensive activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, performing strikes on objects located, among others, in the west of Ukraine, the operation of Polish and allied aviation in our airspace has begun,” its operational command said on X.
“The steps taken are aimed at ensuring security in the areas bordering the threatened areas.”
Russia’s defence ministry said today its air defence units had intercepted and destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones.
‘Weak reaction’
On Saturday, Zelensky slammed the US embassy for what he called a “weak” statement that did not blame Russia for the deadly missile strike on his home city of Kryvyi Rig.
The Russian missile struck a residential area near a children’s playground in the central Ukrainian city.
In an emotional statement on social media, Zelensky named each of the nine children killed in the attack, accusing the US embassy of avoiding referring to Russia as the aggressor.
Zelensky said the children killed in the strike ranged in age from three to 17.
