Russia launches aerial strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine sayspublished at 02:49 British Summer Time
Yang Tian
Live reporter
Ukrainian officials say
Russian drones and missiles have attacked Kyiv and witnesses reported seeing a series of explosions and fires.
The head of
Kyiv’s city military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said there was debris from downed enemy targets and reports of two
preliminary casualties, in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
He also
confirmed that three men were injured, two of them taken to hospital and one
was treated at the scene.
Earlier
this week, Donald Trump said in his call with Vladimir Putin, the Russian
president had vowed “very strongly” to respond to Ukraine’s recent
drone attack on Russian airbases.
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