Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin hammers Kyiv with ballistic missiles

Drone particles has fallen within the area of Russia’s Ust-Luga port within the Baltic Sea, the native governor Alexander Drozdenko mentioned on his Telegram channel this morning.

He additionally mentioned that 47 enemy drones ‌have ​been ‌shot ⁠down in latest ⁠assaults.

Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv early on Monday, killing at the least 9 folks and closely damaging condo blocks and different buildings, officers mentioned, only a few days after the deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital this 12 months.

Rescue crews had been pulling residents from buildings shattered by the in a single day barrage, mentioned Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the town’s navy administration, mentioned the demise toll within the capital rose to 9, with 46 folks wounded all through the town.

“Sadly, this ⁠isn’t the ultimate info,” he mentioned, as ​rescue ⁠operations continued.

At the very least 15 residential buildings had been broken or destroyed within the assault, together with a nine-storey block within the historic Podilskyi district, emergency companies mentioned.

Rescuers used a ladder truck to get to folks trapped on ​the higher ⁠flooring of that constructing, which had ‌been largely destroyed from the fifth degree, they mentioned.

Russia carried out a “large” assault on Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv and different places utilizing long-range, high-precision air-, land-, sea-launched weapons and drones, the Russian defence ministry mentioned in a Telegram submit this morning.

The assault hit residential buildings and killed at the least 9 civilians, which the Russian ministry didn’t acknowledge in its claims.

The ‌ministry additionally mentioned ⁠it had hit navy and power services in Kyiv and the Kyiv ‌area, as ​nicely ‌as navy airfields ⁠in a number of ⁠different Ukrainian ‌areas.

A Russian oil refinery within the metropolis of Yaroslavl got here beneath assault from Ukrainian drones and was see on fireplace, native reviews mentioned.

Native residents took to social media to indicate what was purportedly smoke billowing from the oil refinery.

The Yaroslavl Oil Refinery has been attacked incessantly by the Ukrainian navy and that is the second time it has been hit in 10 days.

The oil facility is positioned almost 250km (150 miles) northeast of Moscow and 700km (435 miles) from Russia-Ukraine border.

The Kremlin mentioned that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump mentioned the battle in Ukraine in a “constructive” cellphone name on Saturday.

Kremlin overseas affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov mentioned that Putin congratulated Trump and the American folks on the 250th anniversary of America’s independence in the course of the name that lasted almost an hour and half, their fourth dialog to this point this 12 months.

Ushakov mentioned that Trump reaffirmed his “readiness to assist obtain a fast cessation of hostilities and seek for peaceable options to settle the disaster” in Ukraine, whereas Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will proceed mediation efforts and stand prepared to go to Moscow.

The Kremlin adviser mentioned Putin as soon as once more emphasised Russia’s “choice for a diplomatic settlement of the battle, supplied that Russia’s well-known, elementary positions are taken into consideration.”

On the identical time, Putin charged that Kyiv and its European allies are “betting on prolonging, and even escalating the battle,” arguing that “the European ‘celebration of conflict’ proceeds from a flawed notion of the general state of affairs and the state of issues alongside the road of contact,” Ushakov mentioned.

He added that Putin informed Trump concerning the “actual state of affairs on the battlefield, the place Russian armed forces are confidently advancing, liberating one settlement after one other.”

The Russian chief particularly talked about the seize of the Ukrainian stronghold of Kostyantynivka, describing it as a key step towards the “liberation” of the whole Donetsk area.

Kyiv has denied the Russian declare of capturing Kostyantynivka. Ukraine’s Normal Workers reiterated that the embattled metropolis stays beneath Ukrainian management in a press release on Telegram on Sunday, a day after Zelensky mentioned that Russia’s declare to have taken management was “simply one other Russian lie.”

Ukraine has refused to halt shelling of the city of Kostiantynivka within the east of the nation to permit Russia at hand over the our bodies of fallen Ukrainian troopers, the Russian defence ministry claimed yesterday.

Russian ⁠navy commanders informed president Vladimir Putin on Friday ⁠that Moscow’s forces had ​taken ⁠management of Kostiantynivka, although ‌Ukraine denied the declare, saying its forces remained in management ‌of the city.

Ukraine’s defence ministry ⁠and basic workers didn’t instantly touch upon the remarks from Russia.

Kostiantynivka is a key locality whose seize Moscow has lengthy sought in its navy marketing campaign within the Donetsk area.

Russia mentioned it had proposed a six-hour ceasefire in and round Kostiantynivka on Monday to facilitate the handover of Ukrainian ‌servicemen’s our bodies and had ​given Kyiv till ‌0900 GMT on Sunday ⁠to reply.

US president Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky whereas in Turkey this week for a Nato summit to make a renewed push to finish the conflict in Ukraine, a senior US official mentioned.

Trump is scheduled to reach on the summit on Tuesday. His first assembly might be with the summit host, Turkish president Rcep Tayyip Erdogan. Trump may also meet with Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and maintain a information convention, the White Home mentioned.

A senior US official who briefed reporters on situation of anonymity concerning the journey mentioned Trump will meet with Zelensky on Wednesday to debate “how we will finish the conflict.”

“The battlefield has clearly frozen during the last couple of months and ⁠neither aspect is making plenty of progress,” the official mentioned.

“The president feels a ​actual ⁠sense of urgency to attempt to ‌deliver this to a cease,” the official mentioned.

Trump may also urge Nato allies to extend their defence spending, the official mentioned.

“He’ll ship that message in individual,” the official mentioned.

Russia launched waves of missiles and drones focusing on Kyiv in a single day into Monday, officers mentioned.

The assault, which was nonetheless underway early Monday morning, concerned waves of ballistic and cruise missiles in addition to drones.

Explosions echoed throughout the town as civilians sought shelter in metro stations.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky had warned hours earlier of one other large-scale Russian assault on the town.

Monday’s assault comes days after a mixed Russian assault killed at the least 31 folks in Kyiv final week.