Reuters. Russia launched another prolonged drone attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday (June 10), killing one person and damaging swathes of Kyiv as well as striking a maternity ward in the southern port of Odesa, regional officials said.
The overnight strikes followed Russia’s biggest drone assault on Ukraine on Monday (June 9)—part of stepped-up operations that Moscow said were retaliatory measures for Kyiv’s recent brazen attacks in Russia.
At least four people were hospitalised in Kyiv as a result of the hours-long attacks that hit seven of the city’s 10 districts, city officials said.
Air raid alerts in Kyiv and most Ukrainian regions lasted five hours until around 5 a.m. (0200 GMT), according to military data. The attack sparked fires in residential and non-residential neighbourhoods and open space areas, city officials said. Reuters’ witnesses heard and saw countless loud explosions shaking the city and lighting the night sky.
The attacks come despite pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump on both sides to move towards a resolution on the war. Moscow and Kyiv returned to negotiations for the first time in more than three years, but outside an agreement on the exchange of war prisoners, there has been no tangible progress.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war. But thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
