Russia has continued to strike Kyiv with drones overnight after 37 people were killed in the deadliest attack on Ukraine’s capital this year. Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to punish those responsible for the deadly attacks, which killed several people in a care home for the elderly. The strikes hit an ammunition depot, sparking a fire in the Bucha district overnight that spread to surrounding areas.
Dozens were injured with nearby infrastructure including residential buildings and the care facility for the elderly and people with disabilities suffering “significant damage”. The Ukrainian president said cases had already been opened on charges of official negligence. He described it as a “terrible situation and terrible negligence on the part of those who stored explosives right next to people”.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry said it had successfully tested a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the US. The missile, which has a range of more than 6,700km, was fired from the Arkhangelsk region and reached its designated target at the Kura test site in Kamchatka. Russia has continued its strikes on Ukraine’s capital overnight following its deadliest attack on Kyiv this year.
Authorities sent several air-raid alerts as fires were reported across the city, Kyiv Independent reported. A residential building in Kyiv's Obolonskyi district was reportedly struck by a drone on Saturday night, causing a fire to break out. Another downed drone was reported in Klitschko, where a fire also broke out.
Russian strikes hit homes and apartment blocks in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Saturday, killing two people and wounding 27 others, including a child, regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said in a statement. Mr Prokudin had said earlier in the week that Russia had intensified its attacks on critical infrastructure in the region, about 70 per cent of which is under Russian control. He urged tens of thousands of residents to move to safer regions, citing the possibility of prolonged power and heating outages this winter.
Russia's defence ministry said it struck a warehouse in Myla, a village in Ukraine's Bucha district near Kyiv, that was storing components and launch boosters for long-range drones, conflicting with Ukraine's description of the site as holding shells, mines and other ammunition. The warehouse was hit in a Russian drone strike on Friday night that sparked explosions and fires, killing 37 people, most of them residents of a nearby care home, in the deadliest attack of the war this year. Ukrainian officials have said the site was a Defence Forces storage facility and have opened criminal proceedings on charges of official negligence over the storage of ammunition near homes.
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