At least 8 killed, 70 injured in Russian airstrikes on Kyiv

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: Apr 24, 2025 7:03 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 people, wounding much than 70 and smashing buildings successful the biggest onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior this year.

The onslaught acceptable disconnected fires and six children were among the wounded, with immoderate radical inactive trapped nether rubble, officials said.

"There has been destruction. The hunt is continuing for radical nether rubble," the State Emergency Service wrote connected the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv politician Vitali Klitschko said 8 people, truthful far, had been confirmed killed successful the capital, though officials had earlier said 9 were killed. The astir superior incidental was successful the Sviatoshynskyi territory westbound of the metropolis centre, wherever the rescuers continued to wide the rubble from 2 buildings, Klitschko said.

Pictures posted connected Telegram showed rescue teams moving with floodlights, moving cautiously done piles of rubble and clambering up ladders extended on the facades of buildings. Police were calling from flat to flat to find whether residents were safe. 

Apartment nonmigratory speaks of terror

Rescue teams were operating astatine 13 sites successful Kyiv with climbing specialists and sniffer dogs, the exigency services said. Forty fires had breached out.

"Mobile telephones are heard ringing beneath rubble. The hunt volition proceed until it becomes wide that they person got everyone," it said.

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Fires had breached retired successful garages, administrative buildings and falling metallic fragments had struck vehicles.

An aerial raid alert was successful effect successful the superior for six hours.

"There was the aerial raid siren, we did not adjacent person clip to formal to spell retired of the apartment. One blast came aft the other, each windows were blown out, doors, walls, my hubby and lad were thrown to the different side," Kyiv nonmigratory Viktoria Bakal said, describing the attack.

Russia launched 145 drones and 70 missiles, including 11 ballistic missiles, successful the overnight attack, Ukraine's aerial unit said connected Telegram. Air unit units changeable down 112 targets.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that isolated from Kyiv and the surrounding region, 7 different regions were nether "mass" attack.

Kharkiv, Ukraine's 2nd biggest city, endured overnight waves of Russian missiles and drones, Mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote connected Telegram.

Terekhov said the metropolis successful northeast Ukraine was attacked 14 times with drones and 10 times with missiles. Multi-storey residential buildings, a metropolis polyclinic, a schoolhouse building, backstage yards, concern enterprises, and a edifice analyzable were damaged and 1 idiosyncratic was taken to hospital, helium said.

There was besides harm successful Zhytomyr region, westbound of Kyiv, wherever exigency services said Russian forces launched a repetition onslaught connected rescue teams attending a fire, injuring 1 worker.

In the concern metropolis of Pavlohrad, which lies successful the cardinal Dnipropetrovsk region, 14 multi-storey buildings were damaged, mostly their windows and balconies, determination governor Serhiy Lysak said connected Telegram, adding that nary 1 was wounded successful the attack.

Diplomatic tensions

The attacks came astatine a captious infinitesimal successful Russia's warfare successful Ukraine, which began with Moscow's full-scale penetration successful 2022, with some Kyiv and Moscow nether unit from the U.S. President Donald Trump to amusement advancement toward a bid deal.

Trump and his medication person threatened to locomotion distant from efforts to broker a ceasefire if nary headway is made, leaving European nations looking for ways to enactment Kyiv.

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Talks successful London connected Wednesday aimed astatine achieving a woody made "significant progress" toward reaching a "common presumption connected the adjacent steps," according to a associated connection from Britain, France and Germany. But the talks were downgraded aft a last-minute determination by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to attend.

Trump appeared to blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a deficiency of advancement aft Zelenskyy said helium would not admit Russia's concern of the Crimea peninsula, which it annexed from Ukraine successful 2014, as portion of a bid deal. 

Zelenskyy said connected Tuesday that recognizing Crimea arsenic portion of Russia would interruption Ukraine's constitution. Ukraine says it is committed to seeking a afloat and unconditional ceasefire.

Russia, too, accused Zelenskyy of wrecking diplomacy aimed astatine reaching a bid woody aft helium refused this week to hold to admit Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters connected Thursday successful Russia that it was becoming clearer by the infinitesimal that Zelenskyy lacked the capableness to negociate a woody to extremity the war.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said connected X that the "brutal strikes" successful Kyiv showed that Russia, not Ukraine, was the obstacle to peace. 

There was nary contiguous remark by Russia connected the overnight attacks.