A one-year-old baby and a young woman were killed in a Russian overnight drone attack on Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said Sunday. At least 13 more people were injured.
The child’s body was pulled from rubble after strikes hit residential buildings, Kyiv military administration chief Tymur Tkachenko confirmed. Several apartment blocks in the Svyatoshynkyi and Darnytskyi districts were badly damaged and left burning after direct hits.
“The Russians are deliberately hitting civilian facilities,” Tkachenko said, urging residents to stay in shelters.
Explosions rocked the capital early in the morning, including at least one blast in the city center. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said a government building in the Pecherskyi district also caught fire, likely caused by a downed drone. Fire crews were deployed to contain the blaze.
Russia also struck Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown in central Ukraine, damaging three infrastructure facilities. Overnight air raid sirens sounded across every Ukrainian region.
Moscow has not commented on the latest strikes. Instead, Russia’s defense ministry claimed it had intercepted 69 Ukrainian drones over several Russian regions.
The escalation comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin sharpens his warnings to the West against sending military support to Ukraine. This week he rejected proposals from a Paris summit that called for a “reassurance force” to deploy immediately after any ceasefire. French President Emmanuel Macron said 26 of Ukraine’s allies had pledged to send troops by land, sea, or air once fighting stops.
Putin dismissed the plan, threatening that any foreign troops in Ukraine would be treated as “legitimate targets.”
Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Moscow still occupies about 20 percent of Ukraine, including Crimea, which it illegally annexed in 2014.
