A Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital kyiv has killed at least one person and injured seven others, city officials say.
Early Saturday morning, residential buildings in several districts were hit and loud explosions were heard throughout the city.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said the injured included a 13-year-old boy and four people had been taken to hospital.
Earlier this week, a similar attack in kyiv killed seven people, Ukrainian officials said. The latest bombing came as Ukrainian negotiators prepared for talks with U.S. officials this weekend on a revised U.S. peace plan.
The head of kyiv’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, confirmed that Saturday’s attack hit “multiple targets on the outskirts of the capital.”
“Enemy drones are over the city and the air defense responds,” he wrote on Telegram.
“Currently in kyiv there is a total of one dead and seven injured, including a child.”
The body of a man was recovered by rescuers in the Sviatoshinskyi district, west of the city, Tkachenko confirmed.
Two women were among the wounded in the town of Brovary, east of kyiv, and the regional governor said “missiles and drones” were targeting residential areas.
Klitschko said the attack had sparked a fire on the lower floors of an apartment block west of the city centre, while another fire was brought under control in a central district.
Earlier this week, Russia and Ukraine traded deadly attacks overnight, setting apartment buildings alight and killing seven people in kyiv, while Russia’s Rostov region reported three deaths.
Saturday’s attack comes amid pressure from President Donald Trump for both sides to agree to a draft peace plan, which was initially heavily weighted toward Moscow’s demands. It was later revised during talks between Ukrainian and American negotiators in Geneva.
On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin doubled down on his core demands to end the war, saying Russia will stop its offensive only if Ukrainian troops withdraw from territory claimed by Moscow.
Putin also confirmed that a US delegation, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, is expected to visit Moscow in the first half of next week to discuss the draft peace plan at the heart of the negotiations.
Zelensky said in a video speech Thursday night that the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations would meet “to translate the points we made in Geneva into a form that puts us on the path to peace and security guarantees.”
