Reuters. Thick clouds of smoke filled the Kyiv skyline on Saturday morning (August 1) after Russia pounded the city with ballistic missiles.
The attack killed at least nine people and wounded 28 others, including four children, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
More than a dozen explosions reverberated through the city, according to Reuters witnesses.
Russia has stepped up attacks on the capital in recent months, while Ukraine is chronically short of air defences capable of downing ballistic missiles, which travel at several times the speed of sound.
This is the second major attack on Kyiv this week. The strikes came two days after a suspected Russian cruise missile landed in Poland during a large attack on Ukraine. The attack on Thursday (July 30) killed nine people, including six members of one family in a village near Kryvyi Rih.
