Rescue staff clear the rubble of a home closely broken after a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, Could 14, 2026.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with a mass drone and missile assault early Thursday morning that killed at the least one and injured 31 individuals, native authorities stated.
The assault struck civilian infrastructure and residential buildings throughout a number of cities, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko stated, with Kyiv enduring the heaviest losses.
Injury was recorded throughout six districts of the capital, in accordance with head of Kyiv’s Navy Administration Tymur Tkachenko. He warned Russia was attacking town with ballistic missiles and drones. Residential buildings and civilian infrastructure was broken.
The cities of Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Kharkiv, Sumy and Odesa additionally have been focused within the assault, which concerned each ballistic and cruise missiles, she stated.
Within the Darnytsia district of Kyiv, a multistory residential constructing partially collapsed, burying individuals beneath the rubble. No less than 27 individuals have been rescued from the rubble, in accordance with Ukraine’s Emergency Service.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated 18 flats have been destroyed. He added that there have been issues with water provide on the left financial institution of Kyiv on account of the assault.
On the scene, emergency staff looked for survivors as smoke from the assault continued to smolder beneath the pile of rubble.
Rescue staff carry an injured girl on a stretcher from a home closely broken after a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, Could 14, 2026.
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Resident Lyudmila Hlushko, 78, stated she heard lots of explosions and the sound of rockets flying round 3 a.m. “Then the home shook violently and there was a loud bang, breaking the glass in my home,” she stated.
Emergency operations additionally have been ongoing within the Obolonskyi and Holosiivskyi districts of Kyiv, the service stated.
Within the Dnieper district, a drone hit the roof of a five-story residential constructing, Tkachenko stated. One other constructing within the Dniprovskyi district was additionally broken.
The assault got here hours after a uncommon daytime assault on Kyiv that killed at the least six individuals, in accordance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The assault, which concerned 800 drones, struck about 20 areas of Ukraine and was among the many longest such assaults in the course of the struggle.
Zelenskyy stated the assault that lasted hours Wednesday aimed to trigger as a lot “ache and grief” as potential.
The assault got here after U.S. President Donald Trump stated Tuesday he believes Moscow and Kyiv will quickly attain a deal to finish preventing. Putin stated in a speech final weekend that his invasion of Ukraine is presumably “coming to an finish.”
However neither chief has offered particulars about what has modified to make a peace deal potential. Moscow and Kyiv keep mutually unique calls for. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts over the previous 12 months to finish the struggle have fizzled after making no progress on key points, comparable to whether or not Russia will get to maintain Ukrainian land it has seized and what will be achieved to discourage Moscow from invading once more.
