Russian strikes in Kyiv kill at least 16 people, flatten apartment block

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· Posted: Jun 17, 2025 6:16 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Russia flattened a conception of an flat artifact successful Kyiv connected Tuesday successful its deadliest onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior this year, portion of a barrage of hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles that killed at slightest 16 people and wounded 124 others.

Ukrainian officials declared a time of mourning connected Wednesday for the victims of what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described arsenic 1 of the astir horrific attacks connected Kyiv since the commencement of the war.

"Such attacks are axenic terrorism. The full world, the United States, and Europe indispensable yet respond arsenic a civilized nine responds to terrorists. [Russian President Vladimir] Putin does this solely due to the fact that helium tin spend to proceed the war."

Zelenskyy said Russian forces had sent 440 drones and fired 32 missiles at Ukraine.

About 27 locations successful Kyiv were deed during respective waves of attacks passim the night, and residential buildings, acquisition institutions and captious infrastructure facilities were damaged, officials said.

A ballistic rocket struck a nine-storey residential gathering successful Kyiv's Solomianskyi district, wiping retired a full conception of it, which was flattened into a heap of debris.

Emergency workers were combing done the rubble and dousing the flames with hoses. They utilized a crane to little a wounded aged pistillate successful a stretcher retired of the model of a level successful an adjacent conception of the building.

"I person ne'er seen thing similar this before. It is simply horrific. When they started pulling radical out, and everyone was chopped up, aged radical and children … I bash not cognize however agelong they tin proceed to torment us, mean people," said Viktoriia Vovchenko, 57, who lives nearby.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 14 radical were killed successful Kyiv and 1 much successful Odesa, successful confederate Ukraine. Nearly 100 were injured betwixt Kyiv, Odesa and Chernihiv, successful the north, officials said.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 1 of the deceased was a 62-year-old U.S. citizen, who died from shrapnel wounds.

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Ukraine connected docket astatine G7, minus Trump

Zelenskyy is successful Canada connected Tuesday for the G7 summit, hoping to stitchery much enactment for tighter sanctions against Russia and continued subject assistance for Ukraine.

Trump has reoriented U.S. argumentation distant from supporting Kyiv and has truthful acold resisted calls from European allies to enforce tighter sanctions connected Moscow for rejecting calls for a ceasefire.

At the G7 summit, taking spot successful Kananaskis, Alta., Trump called for the radical to readmit Russia, which was expelled successful 2014 aft the annexation of Crimea.

Ukraine has besides launched drones heavy into Russia, though its attacks person not caused akin harm to civilian targets. Russia's Defence Ministry said it had intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian territory, including the Moscow region, overnight.

Russia's full-scale penetration is present successful its 4th year, and the hostilities person heated up successful caller weeks arsenic Kyiv and Moscow failed to scope immoderate statement during 2 rounds of bid talks successful Istanbul.

Russian troops are pressing connected with a grinding beforehand successful eastbound Ukraine and person opened a caller beforehand successful the Sumy portion successful the northeast, contempt calls for a ceasefire from Trump, who promised to extremity the warfare quickly.

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The Kremlin connected Tuesday, when asked if Russia planned to measure Ukrainian proposals for a ceasefire and clasp caller talks, said determination was nary knowing of erstwhile the adjacent nonstop negotiations with Kyiv would occur.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia had fulfilled each its obligations agreed to successful erstwhile talks held successful Istanbul connected June 2. Russia would measure successful the coming days the imaginable timeframe for continuing negotiations, helium said.

The talks successful Turkey led to nary known measures to assistance halt fighting, though the 2 sides subsequently made a bid of exchanges involving prisoners of war, arsenic good arsenic the bodies of war dead.

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