8 hurt in Kyiv, 3 dead in bus as Russia strikes Ukraine with record number of drones and missiles

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5 days ago

Eight residents of Kyiv were wounded in Russian attacks.
On Sunday, three were killed when a Russian drone hit a civilian bus in Ukraine's Sumy region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushing for a meeting with counterpart Vladimir Putin to end the war.
A Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv wounded eight residents of an apartment building, including a 3-year-old child, authorities in the Ukrainian capital said on Monday.
Four of those injured in the attack, which took place soon after midnight on Monday, have been hospitalised, with one person in serious condition, the head of Kyiv's military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that all of the people were residents of a multi-storey apartment building in the city's Darnytskyi district on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
'The blast wave damaged windows from the 6th to the 11th floor,' Klitschko said in a post on Telegram.
The capital and most of Ukraine were under air raid alerts for several hours overnight following Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.
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With the threat of missile strikes on western parts of Ukraine that border Poland - a NATO member - Polish armed forces scrambled aircraft to ensure the safety of Polish airspace.
The central Ukrainian city of Kropyvnytskyi came under an attack, regional Governor Andriy Raikovych said, adding that emergency services were working on the site and information about potential damage will be released later on Monday.
The full scale of the Russian attack on Ukraine was not immediately known.
Reuters' witnesses heard loud blasts shaking the city of Kyiv overnight in what sounded like air defence units in operation.
There was no comment from Russia on the attack.
AFP reported that a Russian drone on Sunday hit a civilian bus in Ukraine's northeast Sumy region, killing three people and leaving several wounded, local officials said.
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Moscow has been firing record numbers of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, killing dozens of civilians.
On Sunday afternoon, 'the enemy attacked a bus with civilians with a drone', the region's prosecutor's office said on Telegram, alongside pictures of the destroyed vehicle.
'Three civilians were killed,' it said, adding the victims were all women, aged from 66 to 78.
Ukraine has also ramped up its retaliatory strikes in Russia.
In Russia's northwestern Leningrad region 'a man died in a fire caused by UAV debris', the region's governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said on Telegram, adding three other people were wounded.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushing for a meeting with counterpart Vladimir Putin to end the war, with Kyiv proposing talks by the end of August.
But the Kremlin on Thursday downplayed the likelihood any such meeting was imminent.
Both sides have radically different positions at the negotiating table, and Ukraine has accused Russia of sending only low-level officials with no decision-making power to recent talks.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strikes in the war that Russia started in February 2022.
But thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.