Russia launches missile attack on Kyiv, injuring residents
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Russia launched a missile attack on Kyiv on Saturday, damaging residential buildings and injuring two people, the city's officials said. It came after Zelenskyy warned that Russia was preparing new strikes on energy sites, bridges and other infrastructure.
Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kyiv on Saturday, according to the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko. The attack followed a warning from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his nightly video address that Russia was preparing new strikes on energy targets, bridges and other infrastructure.
Klitschko wrote on Telegram that the enemy was hitting infrastructure with ballistic missiles and that explosions were heard in the Kyiv suburbs. He said debris struck a five-storey apartment building in a western district of the capital, and the facade of another residential building was also damaged. The city's military administration said two people were injured and that a building housing a kindergarten was damaged. Officials continued to warn residents of the possibility of more strikes hours after the attack.
The attack came three days before US-led talks between Ukraine and Russia were due to open in Abu Dhabi, aiming to resolve a war that has lasted more than four years. The last such talks took place in February. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump said a deal between the two sides may be imminent after meeting Kirill Dmitriev, the special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the White House. Trump said he did not meet the Ukrainian delegation that day.
Zelenskyy also said Ukraine is seeking specific guarantees from Western allies on how post-war security support would work, following two days of talks in Brussels.
