KYIV: Russia pummelled Kyiv with drones and missiles early on Tuesday, resuming its air attacks after a brief halt for the visit of US peace negotiators, and killing three people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The attack caused fires in several districts across the Ukrainian capital, damaging at least 14 high-rise buildings, a dorm, a school, a clinic, warehouses and other sites, officials said. "Kyiv was exploding and burning," Katarina Mathernova, the EU ambassador to Ukraine, said in a social media post.
In another strike, a Russian drone partially destroyed a Ukrainian TV channel building in Kyiv, injuring five people, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The number of wounded in the city had reached 19 by midday, authorities said. Russia resumed its attacks after US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff left Kyiv on Sunday following talks with Zelensky, as the Trump administration renewed its push to end Russia's 4 ½ -year war in Ukraine.
Describing the attack as a complex one aimed at causing "as much harm to life as possible", Zelensky said ballistic missiles were still "particularly difficult" to intercept. Ukraine's air force said it downed nearly all cruise missiles and two ballistic missiles. — Reuters
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