Russia strikes Kyiv with deadly barrage on eve of Nato summit
Attack came hours after Ukraine’s president warned that another large-scale assault was imminent
Russia struck Ukraine’s Kyiv region with ballistic missiles on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, authorities said, on the eve of a Nato summit in Turkey.
The assault was the second on the capital and its surroundings in less than a week and came as both sides increased long-range attacks, underlining the growing reach of the war more than four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky are expected to discuss the war on the sidelines of the summit in the Turkish capital Ankara, which begins Tuesday.
After that, Trump plans to speak with Russian leader Vladimir Putin as Washington seeks to revive stalled peace efforts.
An Agence France-Presse journalist in Kyiv heard more than 10 explosions during a ballistic missile alert early Monday. Around 30 minutes later, there were several flashes in the sky as another series of blasts rang out.
“The enemy is striking with ballistic missiles,” Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the Kyiv region’s military administration, wrote on Telegram.