A Russian attack on Ukraine has killed six people and wounded dozens of others, officials said, while emergency crews restored power to more than 400,000 households in Kyiv after strikes on the grid, as the US attempts to broker peace talks.
“While everyone is discussing points of peace plans, Russia continues to pursue its ‘war plan’ of two points: to kill and destroy,” Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha wrote on X on Saturday.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched about 36 missiles and nearly 600 drones in the attack.
The Kyiv City Military Administration said two people were killed in the strikes on the capital, Kyiv.
Regional officials and police said one person had died in the region surrounding the capital, two in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, and one in a midday attack in the Kherson region in the south.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 29 people were wounded in the city, noting that falling debris from intercepted Russian drones hit residential buildings. He also said that the western part of Kyiv had lost power.
“The world should know that Russia is targeting entire families,” Kyiv’s military administration head, Tymur Tkachenko, said.
Following the attack, the European Union’s ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, cast doubt on Russia’s stated interest in a peace deal.
“While the world discusses a possible peace deal. Moscow answers with missiles, not diplomacy,” Mathernova said in a post on X.