Russian overnight airstrikes injured at least 23 people, including a child, across Ukraine on Thursday, ahead of peace talks between Ukraine and US in Geneva aimed at ending the four-year-war.
Head of Kyiv’s military administration Tymur Tkachenko said Russia was launching drone and ballistic missiles at the capital. “Air defence is operating. Stay in shelters until the alert is cleared!” Tkachenko wrote on Telegram on Thursday.
The Ukrainian air force confirmed that “high-speed targets” were heading towards Kyiv. Police reported that debris triggered fired and destruction in three districts, including a large-scale blaze in non-residential buildings, and a fire at a two-storey house.
Fourteen more people were injured in northeastern Kharkiv city, regional governor Oleg Synegubov said. Southeastern Zaporizhzhia region also came under heavy fire, with regional head Ivan Fedorov reporting that seven people were injured after 19 apartments blocks were damaged in overnight Russian air strikes. Another two people got injured in Kryvyi Rig in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Dnipropetrovsk region chief Oleksandr Ganzha.
The fresh barrage prompted neighbouring Poland scramble fighter jets. Russian air strikes came hours before the meeting between Ukrainian and US envoys as part of renewed efforts to revive stalled negotiations ahead of a planned trilateral session with Russia in early March.
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