Search and rescue operations at the site of a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on April 24 have ended, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said on April 25,
The Kyiv Independent reports.
The attack killed 12 people and injured 87 others, including six children, according to the report.
Thirty-one people remain hospitalized, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a day earlier.
A series of explosions rocked the capital around 1:00 a.m. local time on April 24, Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported. Additional explosions were later heard around 4 a.m. local time.
Russia launched attack drones, as well as cruise and ballistic missiles, the Kyiv City Military Administration said.
"We were at home and there were explosions," Maria Rumiantseva, a 40-year-old resident of one of the buildings damaged in the attack, told the Kyiv Independent.
"Then I heard the Shahed. We just went out into the corridor, went to open the door, and that was it — an explosion."
Klitschko added that six children, as well as a pregnant woman, were among the injured.
Fires were reported in residential buildings, Kyiv City Military Administration chief Tymur Tkachenko said, adding that cars and commercial buildings have been impacted as well.
Fallen debris was found around the city, Tkachenko added, describing the attack as "Russian peace in all its glory."
The mass attack came just hours after the Kremlin demanded Ukraine's full recognition of Russia’s claim over four Ukrainian oblasts it partially occupies, neutral status for Ukraine, and an end to all Western military support.
Earlier on April 23, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that President Volodymyr Zelensky was the main obstacle to peace in Ukraine.
Later in the night, Russia launched missiles targeting various regions of the country.
Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts were also targeted in the "massive combined strike," though Kyiv was hit the hardest, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (April 24) said significant progress had been made in Ukraine peace negotiations and that the Kremlin had made a "pretty big concession" by being open to "stopping the war, stopping taking the whole country," Reuters reports.
Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 12 people in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year and drawing a rare rebuke from Trump, who told Vladimir Putin: "Vladimir, STOP!, in a post on Truth Social.
Trump told reporters at the White House that his administration was applying "a lot of pressure" on Russia and reiterated his displeasure with the attack.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the same Oval Office news conference that further discussions were planned for the weekend, and the U.S. wants to see both Ukraine and Russia step up to finalize a deal.
The Kyiv attack, which the U.S. president said was "not necessary" and "very bad timing" as he pushes for peace, also wounded 90 people, smashed buildings and set off fires, Ukrainian officials said. Rescuers were still recovering bodies from the rubble more than 12 hours later.
The attack came at a critical moment in Russia's war in Ukraine, which began with Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022, with both Kyiv and Moscow are trying to show Trump they are making progress towards his goal of a rapid peace deal.
