Russian air attack kills 1, injures 15 in Ukraine while negotiators discuss ending war
Russian strikes killed one person and injured at least 15 others in Ukraine’s capital and the northeastern city of Kharkiv overnight, authorities said early on Saturday.
The country was under an air raid alert with military authorities in Kyiv warning of drones and ballistic missiles.
“Kyiv is under a massive enemy attack. Do not leave shelters!” Mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on Telegram, adding that several non-residential buildings had been hit.
“Currently, one person is known to have died and four to have been wounded,” he wrote in a separate post, adding that three of the injured had been hospitalised.
Fires broke out in several buildings hit by drone debris while heat and water services in parts of the capital were interrupted, he said.
Farther east in Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, Mayor Igor Terekhov reported an attack by Iranian-made Shahed drones had damaged several residential buildings near the Russian border.