Russia shattered weeks of relative calm in Ukraine's capital with long-range missiles fired toward Kyiv early Sunday as Western leaders meet in Europe for the G-7 Summit.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the missiles hit at least two residential buildings, and President Volodymr Zelenskyy said a 37-year-old man was killed and his 7-year-old daughter and wife injured. Associated Press journalists saw emergency workers battling flames and rescuing civilians.
Rescuers work on a damaged residential building, as a result of a missile strike by the Russian army.Kyiv's mayor told journalists he thought the airstrikes were"maybe a symbolic attack" ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid that starts Tuesday. A former commander of U.S. forces in Europe said the strikes also were a signal to the leaders of G-7 nations meeting Sunday in Germany.
A Ukrainian parliament member, Oleksiy Goncharenko, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that preliminary information indicated that Russia launched 14 missiles toward the capital region and Kyiv itself. Zelenskyy said some were intercepted, and he vowed revenge against"all pilots, dispatchers, technicians and other people who ensure the launch of missiles in Ukraine."
Russian forces tried to seize control of Kyiv early in the war. After Ukrainian troops repelled them, the Kremlin largely shifted its focus to southern and eastern Ukraine. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, U.S.
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