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A new wave of deadly Russian missiles slammed Ukraine on Sunday, but Kiev’s long-range drone attack caused travel disruption at Moscow’s airport.
Residents of Kiev and other major Ukrainian cities faced another sleepless night on Sunday as Russia launched 450 missiles and drones overnight on Monday.
The majority were shot down, but he added that 23 hit three locations and fragments from intercepted missiles landed in 12 areas.
National air raid warnings have been issued in most parts of Ukraine, with local governments reporting at least two people dead and 16 injured in the last 24 hours.
“The Russian strike is always an attack on humanity. In Kiev, kindergartens have started fires, along with residential buildings and other private infrastructure,” Ukrainian President Voldimir Zelensky said.
In Kiev, the warning was raised at 11pm on Sunday local time, killing one person and six injured and staying for eight hours, police said.
Standing in the tiled blew of his burnt-out apartment in the capital on Monday morning, 38-year-old Oleksandr Berdychevskyi remembered how the city had been shaken by the overnight explosion.
“There were three explosions. When I heard the fourth, I was in bed. The door was blown away and shards of glass landed on me,” he told CNN. “The balcony was on fire. I ran to the front door, and it was clogged,” he added.
Berdychevskyi said that all his documents and cash savings were destroyed in the fire, leaving only 2,000 Hryvnias (about $50) in his wallet.
When she sifted through the ashes, cursing Russia, and his mother, Lilya Berdychevska, could not stop crying. “They’re monsters. They’re just monsters. How lucky are they that their granddaughter wasn’t in the house and that their son is alive,” she told CNN.
Elsewhere in Kiev, Katerina, who gave her name, was among residents who ran into Rukianibska Metro Station for a shelter in the northwest of the city, where the entrance was damaged by the strike.
“When the attack happened, it was very scary,” she told Reuters, sitting on the escalator with her husband and pet dog, the couple carried debris and debris around after the strike.
“There was a lot of smoke and dust. We were all very scared. There was a bit of panic, but life taught us how to behave, so we’re all used to it.
A fire broke out on the roof of a supermarket in the Darnitsky district southeast of the city.
The fire has also been reported in more central districts of Shevchen Kivski and Dniprovski, affecting two residential buildings and shopping malls, causing wreckage to fall in the kindergarten of dniprovskiy.
In the northeastern city of Kalkiv, Mayor Ikhor Telekov reported 12 hits, including those that lit a flame near a multi-star residential building in the Kibsky district in the north.
Elsewhere in the city, windows were blown away and roads, trams and electric lines were damaged.
This latest attack includes cruises and ballistic missiles, as well as powerful advanced Kinzhal missiles.
Russia has stepped up its overnight strike in recent weeks, targeting cities far from the frontline. Earlier this month, the Ukrainian Air Force launched its biggest drone attack on Ukraine, including 728 attacks and decoy drones and 13 missiles.
Kiev’s army is also continuing to find ways to hit deep in Russia.
Over the weekend, thousands of passengers were forced to line up and sleep on the floor due to delays and cancellations in flights at major Moscow airports caused by long-range drone attacks, as seen in video from Russian media.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobianin said the military had defeated 49 drones from Friday evening until Monday morning, with no injuries or serious damage.
Dozens more were intercepted in the western and southwest, including Kursk, Rostov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Tula and Lipetsk, including Kursk, Rostov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Tula and Lipetsk, confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
In a daily speech on Saturday, Zelensky called for consultations with Russia this week, calling for ceasefire negotiations to be pushed amid pressure for us to reach a deal.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow is “ready to move quickly” to achieve a peace agreement with Ukraine, but its “main goal” was to achieve its “objectives.”
The final round of the ceasefire talks in Istanbul ended swiftly in early June. Representatives from Russia and Ukraine barely met for over an hour before it stopped.
Russia has submitted its largest territorial request as part of its prerequisites for a ceasefire. Ukraine previously refused to consider territorial concessions in exchange for peace.
