Russian strikes on Kyiv kill at least four, Ukraine officials say
The attack comes as Russia escalates deadly ballistic missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
Russian missile strikes on Kyiv have resulted in at least four fatalities, according to Ukrainian officials.
Early on Saturday, local authorities confirmed that Russian ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine had claimed the lives of at least four individuals.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that the assault on the capital also left a minimum of 15 people injured, among them two boys aged 13 and 17. The Kyiv City Military Administration verified the four deaths.
Russia has recently intensified its lethal ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine's capital, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to stress the urgent need for interceptors.
These strikes occurred two days after a suspected Russian cruise missile landed in Poland during a widespread attack on Ukraine that killed at least eight people, including six members of a single family in a village near Kryvyih Rih.
Klitschko stated that the capital endured a ballistic missile attack, with AFP reporting over 10 explosions.
Fires erupted across the city, and power outages were reported in certain areas.
Klitschko noted that a residential building in Shevchenkivskyi was partially destroyed, trapping people inside, while a warehouse in the Darnytskyi district was ablaze.
This attack follows Zelensky's meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. earlier this week, where he urged the U.S. to grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.
When questioned about the missiles during a cabinet meeting at the Camp David retreat on Friday, Trump indicated that the U.S. had not agreed to Ukraine manufacturing Patriot missiles, but that discussions were ongoing.
He emphasized that the U.S. needed to be "very careful about letting somebody build them."
Highlighting concerns about sharing advanced U.S. weaponry, Trump described it as "a big step."
Trump's latest remarks regarding Patriot missiles come weeks after he had offered to grant Ukraine the right to produce them.
As Russia has increased its air attacks, Ukraine has experienced a depletion of Patriot missile supplies, which remain the only weapon in its arsenal capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.
For its part, Ukraine has escalated its retaliatory strikes in recent months, including attacks on several retail warehouses belonging to Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries.
Kyiv asserts that it is targeting logistics hubs used by Russians to acquire military equipment, thereby disrupting supplies to the Russian army.
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