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Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said early on Sunday.
At least 29 people were wounded, seven of them children, in the second consecutive nighttime attack on Kyiv to claim civilian lives. Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a 19-year-old woman and her 46-year-old mother were among the dead.
Russian drones caused fires in two residential buildings in the capital’s Desniansky district. Emergency crews evacuated civilians from a nine-storey and a 16-storey building, put out flames and cleared the rubble.
Olha Yevhenivha, 74, said there was so much smoke from the fire that she could not leave her flat.

“Even until now our windows are totally black from the smoke, and it was impossible to go down, so that’s why we put wet blankets on our doors and balcony,” she said.
Ihor Motchanyi, a football player, said he and his parents “miraculously survived” after a drone sparked a fire inside their home the day after his 25th birthday.
“My mother and I left. My father stayed behind in the apartment and wanted to take some documents, the most important things. He couldn’t get out because there was a fire, so he jumped down from the [third] floor” into a nearby tree, Motchanyi said
He said his family were planning to leave Kyiv temporarily and stay with relatives in a village.
Russia attacked Ukraine with 101 drones overnight into Sunday, according to Ukraine’s air force, of which 90 were shot down and neutralised. Five drones hit four locations and drone debris fell on five other places, the statement said.
The attack came a day after Russian missiles and drones killed four people, including two in Kyiv, prompting fresh pleas from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky for Western air defence systems.

Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed on Sunday that over the previous day, its forces struck energy facilities and rail infrastructure serving Ukraine’s war effort, as well as other military targets such as troop deployment points and a drone factory.
It did not comment specifically on strikes on Kyiv, nor on the civilian casualties reported by Ukraine.
In Russia’s Bryansk region near Ukraine, two civilians were hospitalised following Ukrainian drone strikes, according to regional Governor Alexander Bogomaz.
At least 26 Ukrainian drones were downed over southwestern Russia on Sunday, according to the Defence Ministry in Moscow.
Elsewhere, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country had tested a new atomic-powered missile that can carry a nuclear warhead and confound existing defences, according to remarks released on Sunday.
The announcement, which followed years of tests, comes as part of nuclear messaging from the Kremlin, which has resisted Western pressure for a ceasefire in Ukraine and strongly warned the US and other Nato allies against sanctioning strikes deep inside Russia with longer-range Western weapons.


Earlier last week, Putin directed drills of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches.
The exercise came as his planned summit on Ukraine with US President Donald Trump was put on hold, the latest twist in Trump’s stop-and-go effort to resolve the war.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in remarks recorded on Saturday that a date for the summit has not been agreed and that Trump was the one to postpone it after initially suggesting it could take place by the end of the month.
But Peskov insisted that the summit had not been cancelled and said recent US sanctions against Russia’s top oil companies were not a reason to abandon dialogue.
“The presidents can’t meet for the sake of meeting. They can’t waste their time and they’re open about it,” Peskov said in an interview with Russian state television released on Sunday, describing peace talks as “a complex process”.


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A residential building damaged during a Russian strike in Kyiv. Photo: Reuters

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Kyiv endures another night of attacks as Moscow resists Western pressure to end the war


Kyiv endures another night of attacks as Moscow resists Western pressure to end the war.


Russia targets Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with drones as Putin heralds new missile

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Kyiv endures another night of attacks as Moscow resists Western pressure to end the war