Russian attacks leave three dead in Ukraine
Russian Attacks Leave Three Dead in Ukraine
Russian forces unleashed a series of drone and missile strikes across Ukraine late Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of at least three individuals, according to Ukrainian officials. In Kyiv, a 12-year-old boy was among two victims. Mayor Vitali Klitschko noted that at least 18 others were wounded.
“As well as the deaths of a 12-year-old boy and a 35-year-old woman, rescuers pulled a mother and child from the ruins of a 16-storey residential building that collapsed in Kyiv’s central Podilsky district,” Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
In the north of the capital, four emergency medical workers were among those injured due to repeated shelling. Meanwhile, an attack in the southeastern city of Dnipro claimed one life and left at least 10 others hurt, according to Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional administration.
“Kyiv has consistently advocated for a comprehensive, lasting ceasefire as the initial phase of talks aimed at concluding Russia’s invasion,” Ganzha stated on Telegram.
Pictures shared online showed buildings engulfed in flames in the affected city. Elsewhere, officials reported a drone strike injuring a 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man in Kharkiv, while five people were wounded in an attack on the southern port city of Odesa.
Across the border, a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region killed two children, aged five and 14, according to its governor Veniamin Kondratyev.
“Following a brief pause aligned with Orthodox Easter festivities, both factions claimed the other had breached the truce numerous times,” Kondratyev said on Telegram.
As the conflict enters its fifth year, peace discussions have taken place, mediated by the United States. Nevertheless, progress has halted following President Donald Trump’s pivot to Middle Eastern conflicts. Kyiv has repeatedly pushed for a full, stable ceasefire as the first step toward negotiating an end to the war, while Moscow insists on finalizing the peace deal before talks can proceed, prompting Kyiv to accuse Russia of insincerity in resolving the conflict.
