Russian missiles struck a residential building and a kindergarten compound in central Kyiv on Sunday, killing one person and injuring five others, officials said, as Moscow intensified its air strikes. Ukraine for the second day.
Emergency services said the fire broke out in a nine-story residential building in the central Shevchenkivsky district. Cars parked outside a smoldering building were littered with debris that had a crater in its roof.
“They (rescuers) have pulled out a seven-year-old girl. He’s alive. Now they are trying to save her mother,” said the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko.
“There are people under the rubble,” Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app. He said that many people were already hospitalized.
At another site, about 400 meters away, a Reuters photographer noticed a large explosion crater near a playground in a private kindergarten that had shattered windows. Some privately held storage garages in the area were completely destroyed.
Russia’s defense ministry said it had used high-precision weapons to strike Ukrainian army training centers in the regions of Chernihiv, Zhytomyr and Lviv, an apparent reference to the attacks reported by Ukraine on Saturday.
There was no immediate comment on Sunday’s attacks on Kyiv. Moscow has denied targeting civilians.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called on the Group of Seven, holding a three-day summit in Germany, to impose further sanctions on Moscow and provide more heavy weapons.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said four to six long-range missiles were fired over a thousand kilometers from Russian bombers in the southern Russian region of Astrakhan, which overlooks the Caspian Sea.
He said that some incoming missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces.
There were four explosions in Kyiv in the early hours of Sunday. Hours later two more explosions occurred in Kyiv, but there was no immediate sign of damage, suggesting that the inbound missiles could have been shot down.
Ukraine’s police chief Ihor Klymenko said on national television that five people were injured. Police later confirmed that one person had died.
“The Russians hit Kyiv again. The missiles damaged an apartment building and a kindergarten, ”said the head of the presidential administration, Andrey Yermak.
Regional governor Oleksandr Skichko said explosions were also heard in the central city of Cherkasy.
The last major strike on Kyiv took place on 5 June when a rail car repair facility on the outskirts was affected. In late April, a Radio Liberty producer was killed in a strike in the building she lived in.
Shevchenkivsky Historic District is home to a cluster of universities, restaurants, and art galleries.
Russia abandoned an early advance on Kyiv to face fierce resistance reinforced by Western arms.
Since then Moscow and its allies have focused on the south and the Donbass, an eastern region made up of Luhansk and its neighbor Donetsk, deploying heavy artillery in some of the heaviest ground fighting in Europe. World Give a war
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