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The attack came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
prepares to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday for
further talks in an effort to end the nearly 4-year-old war.
Zelenskyy said they plan to discuss issues including security
guarantees and territorial issues in the Donetsk and
Zaporizhzhia regions.
Russia targeted Ukraine with almost 500 drones and 40 missiles
of various types, Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram. The main
target was energy and civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, he said.
In some districts of the region there is no electricity or
heating because of the attacks, he added.
“There have been many questions these days. Where is the Russian
response to the proposals to end the war, which were made by the
United States and the world?” Zelenskyy said. “Russian
representatives hold long talks, in reality the ‘Kinzal’ and
‘Shaheds’ (drones) speak for them."
There were over 10 damaged residential buildings in the attack,
said Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, in a post on Telegram.
People were being evacuated from under the rubble of collapsed
buildings.
Two children were among those wounded in the attack, which
affected seven locations across the city of Kyiv said the head
of Kyiv's City Military Administration Tymur Tkachenko in a
statement on Telegram. A body was found under the rubble of one
damaged building, said Klymenko.
A fire broke out in an 18-story residential building in the
Dnipro district of the city, and emergency crews rushed to the
scene to contain the flames.
A 24-story residential building in the Darnytsia district was
also hit, Tkachenko said, and more fires broke out in the
Obolonskyi and Holosiivsky districts.
In the wider Kyiv region, the strikes hit industrial and
residential buildings, according to Ukraine's Emergency Service.
In the Vyshhorod area, emergency crews rescued one person found
under the rubble of a destroyed house.
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