War in Ukraine: a vast night attack on kyiv leaves one dead and 31 injured

• At least ten people were killed and around forty injured in a large Russian air attack on kyiv, authorities announced this Thursday.
• Moscow has launched more than 650 attack drones and 56 missiles against Ukraine, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.
• This attack occurred 48 hours after the expiration of a truce with Russia.

At least ten people were killed and around forty injured in a vast air attack on kyiv, 48 hours after the expiration of a truce with Russia, the authorities announced, the death toll having been revised upwards several times in the day.Â

The mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, said Russia had hit the city with “drones and ballistic missiles”. AFP journalists heard several explosions during the night as well as anti-aircraft gunfire. The attack affected six districts of the capital as well as six others in its region, according to military authorities.

Several buildings were affected, according to images taken by AFP journalists and the official report. Operations are underway to search for people possibly “trapped under the rubble of a collapsed high-rise building”according to emergency services. Â Â

More than 650 drones launched last night..

Russia launched more than 650 attack drones and 56 missiles against Ukraine during nighttime attacks this Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky then accused in the morning, adding that a rescue operation was underway in Kiev. “Overnight, the Russians launched more than 670 attack drones and 56 missiles against Ukraine”he wrote on social networks, calling on kyiv’s partners to “don’t stay silent”.

After a three-day truce to commemorate the end of the Second World War, Russia’s daily attacks on Ukrainian cities resumed overnight from Monday to Tuesday. kyiv announced that it was returning blow for blow and the Russian Defense Ministry indicated that it had intercepted 36 Ukrainian drones during the night from Wednesday to Thursday.

…and nearly a thousand the day before

On Wednesday, Moscow launched at least “800 drones” on the country, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. “It certainly cannot be called a coincidence that one of the most massive and longest Russian attacks on Ukraine took place precisely at the time when the President of the United States arrived on a visit to China – a visit for which much is expected”he then declared. The Ukrainian president also urged his American counterpart to discuss ways to put an end to the Russian invasion during his meeting with the Chinese head of state Xi Jinping, which took place this Thursday morning in Beijing.

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Russia “shows all the hypocrisy with which she negotiated the fragile truce of the last days”reacted Emmanuel Macron on X. “By bombing civilians, Russia demonstrates less its strength than its weakness: it is short of solutions on the military front and does not know how to end its war of aggression.”

The ceasefire in force from May 9 to 11, negotiated under the aegis of the United States, was marred by accusations of violations on both sides but was not marked by any major offensive.