Russian strikes on Kyiv killed at least six people, officials said on Thursday, as Moscow claimed the capture of a town that had been a key stronghold for the Ukrainian army in the east of the country. Drones and missile strikes hit at least 27 locations in Kyiv in the early hours, city officials said. ‘As of now, the services have confirmed six deaths,’ including a six-year-old boy, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration.
“We have 52 wounded people, almost 30 are in hospitals. Including nine children,” he wrote. “It’s a horrible morning in Kyiv. The brutal Russian strikes destroyed entire residential buildings and damaged schools and hospitals. Civilians are injured and killed. There are still people under the rubble,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga wrote on X.
Russia said it had captured the town of Chasiv Yar, which had been a strategically important military hub for Ukrainian forces in the east. The town “was liberated by Russian forces,” Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement.
Following Thursday’s strikes, Ukraine’s foreign minister called for the international community to apply utmost pressure on Moscow to end the war it launched in February 2022.
“President Trump has been very generous and very patient with Putin, trying to find a solution,” Sybiga wrote. But Russian President Vladimir Putin “does not care about any attempts to put an end to the killing. He only seeks to destroy and kill. Because the entire existence of this war criminal is based on this senseless war, which he cannot win but refuses to end.”
“It’s time to make him feel the pain and consequences of his choices. It’s time to put maximum pressure on Moscow,” Sybiga wrote.
