Russian Strikes Kill At Least 11 in Kyiv for Second Time This Week

At least 11 people have died after Russia launched another wave of strikes on Kyiv, marking the second such attack on the Ukrainian capital in just a week, according to the city’s top military official, Timur Tkachenko. Around 46 people were wounded, including five children, and three additional deaths were reported in the broader Kyiv region.

Emergency crews were still working through more than 20 sites early Monday, with residential tower blocks in two districts among the buildings hit. Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said ballistic missiles struck multiple locations, sparking fires in several apartment complexes, and that warehouses and a vehicle repair garage also sustained damage.

The bombardment left a trail of visible destruction by Monday morning, with three apartment blocks partially collapsed after direct missile hits. Rescue teams worked to free people trapped in the wreckage while helicopters ferried river water to help extinguish the fires.

Residents once again fled into underground shelters overnight as air raid sirens sounded and Ukrainian air defenses engaged incoming fire. President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned earlier in the day that intelligence pointed to Moscow preparing a fresh large-scale assault on the capital, following the deadly strikes last Thursday that killed 30 people and drove huge numbers of residents into metro stations for safety.

Ukraine has accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in these attacks. Russia, for its part, has said its strikes were aimed at military and energy infrastructure, framing them as retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian power facilities. Ukraine has meanwhile ramped up its own strikes on Crimea, including causing a temporary power outage in Sevastopol, as part of an effort to push the Kremlin toward peace negotiations — though Moscow has instead intensified its bombing of Kyiv.

The attack comes just ahead of a NATO summit in Turkey, where Zelensky is due to meet with President Trump. He has called on allies to speed up deliveries of air defense missiles and pressed the US to authorize Ukraine to produce Patriot missile systems domestically, warning on social media that any delay in supplying air defenses costs lives and emboldens Russia to keep fighting.