Rescue employees clear the rubble of a home closely broken after a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, Might 14, 2026.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with a mass drone and missile assault early Thursday morning that killed at the least one and injured 31 individuals, native authorities stated.
The assault struck civilian infrastructure and residential buildings throughout a number of cities, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko stated, with Kyiv enduring the heaviest losses.
Injury was recorded throughout six districts of the capital, in keeping with head of Kyiv’s Army Administration Tymur Tkachenko. He warned Russia was attacking town with ballistic missiles and drones. Residential buildings and civilian infrastructure was broken.
The cities of Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Kharkiv, Sumy and Odesa additionally had been focused within the assault, which concerned each ballistic and cruise missiles, she stated.
Within the Darnytsia district of Kyiv, a multistory residential constructing partially collapsed, burying individuals below the rubble. Not less than 27 individuals had been rescued from the rubble, in keeping with Ukraine’s Emergency Service.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated 18 flats had been destroyed. He added that there have been issues with water provide on the left financial institution of Kyiv on account of the assault.
On the scene, emergency employees looked for survivors as smoke from the assault continued to smolder beneath the pile of rubble.
Rescue employees carry an injured lady on a stretcher from a home closely broken after a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, Might 14, 2026.
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Resident Lyudmila Hlushko, 78, stated she heard lots of explosions and the sound of rockets flying round 3 a.m. “Then the house shook violently and there was a loud bang, breaking the glass in my house,” she stated.
Emergency operations additionally had been ongoing within the Obolonskyi and Holosiivskyi districts of Kyiv, the service stated.
Within the Dnieper district, a drone hit the roof of a five-story residential constructing, Tkachenko stated. One other constructing within the Dniprovskyi district was additionally broken.
The assault got here hours after a uncommon daytime assault on Kyiv that killed at the least six individuals, in keeping with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The assault, which concerned 800 drones, struck about 20 areas of Ukraine and was among the many longest such assaults throughout the struggle.
Zelenskyy stated the assault that lasted hours Wednesday aimed to trigger as a lot “pain and grief” as potential.
The assault got here after U.S. President Donald Trump stated Tuesday he believes Moscow and Kyiv will quickly attain a deal to finish preventing. Putin stated in a speech final weekend that his invasion of Ukraine is presumably “coming to an end.”
However neither chief has supplied particulars about what has modified to make a peace deal potential. Moscow and Kyiv keep mutually unique calls for. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts over the previous 12 months to finish the struggle have fizzled after making no progress on key points, reminiscent of whether or not Russia will get to maintain Ukrainian land it has seized and what may be performed to discourage Moscow from invading once more.
