Russia launched 550 drones and missiles in kyiv in its most extensive aerial assault since large -scale invasion began during the night until Friday, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The strikes arrived hours after a phone call between the president of the United States, Donald Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, after which Trump said he was “disappointed” that Putin was not ready to end the war against Ukraine.
A woman was killed in Russia after attacks by Ukrainian drones, authorities said.
The interim governor of the southern region of Rostov in Russia said she was killed in a strike in a village not far from the Ukrainian border.
Russia's night air attacks broke another record, said the Ukraine Air Force, with 72 of the 550 drones that penetrated aerial defenses, above an earlier record of 537 launched on Saturday night.
Air Raid alerts sounded for more than eight hours when several waves of attacks hit kyiv, the “main objective of the strikes,” said the Air Force in the Telegram messaging application.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, condemned one of the most significant and cynical war attacks “, describing a” hard and insomnia night. “
By pointing out that he came directly after Putin's call with Trump, Zelensky added a telegram publication: “Russia once again shows that it does not intend to end the war.”
He called international allies, particularly the United States, to increase pressure on Moscow and impose greater sanctions.
The images shared on social networks by the Ukrainian state emergency service showed that firefighters fought to extinguish fires in kyiv after the large -scale night attack of Russia.
At least 23 people were injured in the attacks against kyiv, according to the Ukrainian authorities, with damaged rail infrastructure and schools, buildings and fires fires throughout the capital. Poland's Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, said the Polish embassy had also been damaged.
(BBC)
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