Kyiv, Ukraine – A Russian drone and missile assault on Ukraine’s capital in a single day killed at the least 5 individuals and injured others, in keeping with Ukraine’s emergency companies. Emergency crews have been nonetheless working Monday morning to rescue individuals they believed to be trapped below the particles of 1 partially collapsed residence constructing in Kyiv.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, one other individual was killed and eight injured within the metropolis of Bila Tserkva, round 53 miles southwest of the capital.
The strikes got here almost every week after a mixed Russian assault on Ukraine final Tuesday killed 28 individuals in Kyiv, 23 of them in a residential constructing that collapsed after sustaining a direct hit by a missile. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to as that assault one of many greatest bombardments of the warfare, now in its fourth yr.
Firefighters proceed a search and rescue operation in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 23, 2025, after at the least 5 individuals have been killed in a Russian strike that hit an residence constructing.
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Within the early hours of Monday, drones and missiles hit residential areas, hospitals and sports activities infrastructure in quite a few districts throughout Kyiv, emergency companies stated, with probably the most extreme injury occurring within the Shevchenkivskyi district, the place one part of a five-story residence constructing collapsed.
5 individuals have been confirmed useless within the assault on the constructing whereas 10 others, together with a pregnant girl, had been rescued from a close-by high-rise that additionally sustained heavy injury within the blast.
Dozens of automobiles, some burned out and others mangled by flying particles from the blast, shaped a snarl within the courtyard in entrance of the constructing, which had collapsed all the way down to the second ground.
Onlookers, some wrapped in blankets, watched tearfully because the cleanup operation happened. Dozens of volunteers labored to take away damaged glass, downed tree branches and different particles.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko advised reporters from the scene that “we very much hope that the death toll will not increase,” however that rescue staff have been nonetheless looking the collapsed constructing for additional casualties.
President Trump is final identified to have spoken with Russian chief Vladimir Putin a number of days earlier than Moscow’s earlier main assault on Kyiv.
After that June 14 name, Mr. Trump stated he and Putin had spent most of their time discussing the continuing Israeli strikes on Iran, and “much less time was spent talking about Russia/Ukraine, but that will be for next week.”
That was earlier than the U.S. joined Israel in attacking Iran’s nuclear websites over the weekend — a call by Mr. Trump that the Kremlin stated on Monday it “strongly condemns” and considers “irresponsible.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Monday that Putin had no plans to talk once more with Mr. Trump within the wake of the U.S. strikes on Iran — a rustic that Moscow has more and more aligned with in recent times — “but if necessary, such contacts can now be organized quite quickly.”
