Deadly Russian Drone and Missile Strikes Hit Kyiv, Claiming at Least 14 Lives

During the overnight hours of Tuesday, Russian forces launched a series of drone and missile attacks on Kyiv, resulting in at least 14 fatalities, including an American citizen, and injuring more than 100 individuals, according to local officials. This marks the deadliest assault on Ukraine’s capital in nearly a year.

These strikes are part of an intensified wave of Russian aerial attacks that have escalated in recent weeks, further diminishing fragile hopes for a ceasefire. The attacks coincided with a summit of the Group of Seven nations taking place in Canada, where skepticism remains high about the potential to end the conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russian leadership of continuing the war solely because they have the means to do so. “Putin is doing this simply because he can afford to keep waging war. He wants the conflict to continue,” Zelensky said in a statement delivered from the summit.

At the summit, Zelensky aimed to urge Ukraine’s allies for increased support and tougher sanctions against Russia. He also planned to meet with former U.S. President Donald Trump. However, Trump expressed support for Putin during the Monday meeting, criticizing Russia’s expulsion from the bloc following the 2014 annexation of Crimea. Trump abruptly left Canada Monday night.

Zelensky condemned what he described as the global community’s failure to strongly denounce Russia’s aggression. “It is shameful that the powerful of this world overlook this,” he stated.