MAYOR VITALI KLITSCHKO
Ukrainian police shoot dead gunman who killed 5, took hostages in supermarket
The head of Ukraine's Interior Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, said in a statement on social media that special tactical police units stormed the store after attempts to contact the gunman with a negotiator failed.
Ukrainian capital Kyiv, other cities, under Russian attack, officials say
Kyiv and Kharkiv faced missile and drone attacks early Tuesday, causing damage to apartment blocks, an educational facility, and a kindergarten in the capital. Two individuals were injured in Kharkiv. Explosions were also reported in Dnipro and Sumy. An air raid alert persisted for over two hours in Kyiv.
Ukraine's two largest cities under Russian attack, officials say one dead
Russia launched attacks on Ukraine's major cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, on Saturday. One person died in Kyiv, with four others injured. Kharkiv reported 11 people injured. Drones and missiles hit residential areas, a dormitory, a hospital, and a maternity hospital. These strikes occurred during peace talks in the UAE.
Air defences in action in 'massive' Russian attack on Kyiv, mayor says
Russian forces unleashed a massive drone and missile assault on Kyiv early Friday. The attack struck buildings, igniting fires and causing explosions across the capital. Officials reported two people injured. Falling debris damaged residential buildings and a school. Ukraine's air force confirmed missiles targeted Kyiv and other regions.
Russia launches new barrage of drones, missiles at Ukraine, kills one in Kyiv
Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight. Kyiv faced multiple fires, and one person died. Rescuers and medics worked in four districts of the capital. A subway station, shops, houses, and a kindergarten suffered damage. Kharkiv also experienced explosions. Residents sought shelter in underground stations. Air defense units worked to repel the attack. Oleh Synehubov reported explosions in Kharkiv.
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Explosions heard in Kyiv, air raid alert sounds: AFP
Late Wednesday, explosions erupted over Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, prompting air raid sirens and warnings for residents to seek shelter due to a suspected Russian aerial attack. Reporters from AFP in central Kyiv noted loud blasts reverberating throughout the city. Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that air defense systems had been activated.
Russia uses hypersonic missiles in an attack on Kyiv. Fires break out in some city districts
Russian forces launched a significant missile attack on Ukrainian targets, including the use of advanced Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, according to Ukraine’s air force. The attack, which occurred during daylight hours, caused explosions felt throughout Kyiv, with falling debris starting fires in several districts. Smoke was seen rising from different parts of the city, though immediate reports on casualties and damage were not available. Ambulances were dispatched to the affected Solomianskyi district, while explosions were also reported in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukraine issues air alert after warning of incoming Russian bombers heading towards Kyiv
Ukraine issued a nationwide air alert after its military detected several Tu-95MS bombers taking off from a Russian base. The air force reported that missiles were heading towards Kyiv, prompting the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, to confirm explosions and the activation of air defense systems. The use of these Soviet-era bombers follows previous instances earlier this month and in January. Russia previously used these planes in December to conduct strikes across Ukrainian cities, resulting in casualties.
Mass drone attack hits several Kyiv districts
Kyiv faced its sixth drone attack this month, targeting separate residential areas. Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed strikes in Solomyanskyi district, causing a fire in a block of flats and injuring two. The incident, near a maternity hospital, damaged multiple apartments. Another attack in Darnytskyi district set fire to a construction site without injuries. Serhiy Popko reported a third strike in Holosiivskyi district, damaging apartments. Air raid alerts were lifted afterward. Videos and images on social media captured the aftermath, including flames and destruction.
Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city's parks. Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city's military administration said.
Explosions heard in Kyiv after air raid alert issued across Ukraine
Mayor Vitali Klitschko told residents to stay in air raid shelters. Kyiv city officials said air defences were at work and the air force reported that Russia had launched hypersonic missiles at the Kyiv region.
Kyiv mayor says Russian drone attack targets Ukraine capital
In the Golosiivsky district, "parts of a drone fell on the playground" and a fire broke out in a non-residential building, the Kyiv city military administration said, adding that emergency services were on the scene. The administration had earlier issued an alert for drone attacks and warned residents to stay in shelters. The southern Odesa region was also targeted by a drone attack on Wednesday, the regional military administration said on Telegram, without giving further details.
One dead, at least four wounded in 'massive' overnight strike on Ukraine's Kyiv
Explosions heard across the Ukrainian city of Kyiv resulted from a series of drone strikes, killing one person and injuring at least four others. The Ukrainian military administration stated that about a dozen Iranian-made drones had penetrated Kyiv airspace; falling debris was reported in five districts; and a 19-year-old woman and 23-year-old man were hospitalised with shrapnel wounds. Fires broke out in separate buildings, and the Ukrainian Air Force has warned of the continued threat of drone attacks by Russia.
Air raid alerts declared across all of Ukraine, Kyiv reports attacks
Russia has launched around 20 separate missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian cities since the start of May.
Moscow targeted by drone attack, no casualties: mayor
The Russian capital was targeted by a rare drone attack Tuesday morning, causing "minor" damage to buildings and no casualties, the city's mayor said. "This morning, at dawn, a drone attack caused minor damage to several buildings. All the city's emergency services are on the scene ... No one has been seriously injured so far," Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
At least five wounded due to Russian strikes on Kyiv, city officials say
Three people were injured in blasts in Kyiv's Solomyanskyi district and two others were injured when drone wreckage fell onto the Sviatoshyn district, both west of the capital's centre, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on his Telegram messaging channel. Klitschko said drone wreckage fell on a two-storey building in the Sviatoshyn region, adding that blasts continued in Kyiv.
One dead, two injured in Russian missile attack on Kyiv: mayor
"As a result of a rocket hitting a non-residential building in the Golosiivsky district, there is information that one person is dead and two wounded," Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a statement on social media. The Kyiv city military administration said the death was due to parts of a missile falling.
Ukrainian officials report Russian missile attack on Kyiv
Deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram that a missile attack on critical infrastructure in the capital was underway.
Ukraine reports more Russian drone attacks
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 40 drones "headed for Kyiv" overnight, according to air defense forces, and all of them were destroyed. Klitschko said 22 drones were destroyed over Kyiv, three in the outlying Kyiv region and 15 over neighboring provinces.
Russia targets critical infrastructure in drone attacks on Kyiv and its region
By 3 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), Ukraine's air defence systems destroyed 16 air objects above Kyiv, the city's military administration said. Air raid sirens were wailing by that time for more than three hours. Earlier in the night, debris from a destroyed drone over Kyiv hit the capital's northeastern district, wounding one, the city's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. A 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Kyiv's Desnianskiy district, Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app, after drone debris hit a road there and damaged a building.
Heating restored in freezing Kyiv: Mayor Klitschko
Ukrainian officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles on Friday in one of its heaviest barrages since the Kremlin's Feb. 24 invasion, forcing emergency blackouts nationwide and cutting access to heat and water. Temperatures in Kyiv and many places across Ukraine were below freezing on Sunday morning
Ukraine battles to restore power, water after Russia targets electricity grid
Ukraine's military accused Russian forces of firing around 70 cruise missiles at targets across the country on Wednesday and of deploying attack drones. Ten people were killed and around 50 wounded, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin told local media. The World Health Organisation has warned of "life-threatening" consequences and estimated that millions could leave their homes as a result.
Ukraine: Barrage of Russian strikes on key infrastructure
Part of the Ukrainian capital was cut off from power and water supplies as a result, its mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Officials also reported possible power outages in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia resulting from the strikes.
Several explosions heard in Ukraine's capital Kyiv
Three blasts occurred between 6:35 am and 6:58 am (0335 GMT and 0358 GMT). Air raid sirens sounded shortly before the first explosion. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said one of the blasts was in the capital's central Shevchenkivsky district. "All services are on their way to the spot. Details later. The air alert continues. Stay in shelters!" Klitschko said on social media.
Several explosions shake Ukraine's capital Kyiv, says mayor
Air raid sirens had gone off earlier across much of Ukraine, including in the Kyiv region.
New Kyiv curfew from Saturday evening to Monday morning
Curfew has been imposed several times in Kyiv since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.
Kyiv to impose curfew for 'difficult and dangerous' 36 hours
The announcement came as Russia launched fresh attacks in Ukraine's capital, which has nearly been encircled by Moscow's troops in the third week of the invasion and that has lost an estimated half of its 3.5-million pre-war population.
Kyiv's mayor: 'We are encircled' but full of fight
Russian troops' advance on the city has been slower than many military experts had expected but the overall Russian military advantage is well-known to all.
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