Ukraine-Russia conflict newest: Zelensky says three lifeless after Putin launches assault with 650 drones and 30 missiles | EUROtoday

A 76-year-old lady has been killed in Russia’s large-scale assault on Kyiv, in line with the area’s navy administration.

Three individuals had been additionally injured, together with a 16-year-old lady, navy administration chief Mykola Kalashnyk mentioned.

The assault triggered a fireplace to interrupt out in a two-storey home within the Vyshhorod district.

Two homes had been additionally broken within the Obukhiv district, the place home windows had been blown out and roofs broken, authorities added.

A large Russian strike on Ukraine on Tuesday killed a minimum of three individuals, together with a four-year-old little one, president Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned.

More than 650 drones and greater than 30 missiles had been launched at Ukraine, he mentioned.

A lady was killed within the Kyiv area, one particular person was killed within the Khmelnytskyi area, and the four-year-old was killed within the Zhytomyr area after a Russian drone attacked a residential constructing, the Ukrainian president mentioned in an replace on social media.

“This Russian strike sends an extremely clear signal about Russia’s priorities. An attack was carried out essentially in the midst of negotiations aimed at ending this war,” he mentioned in a publish on the Telegram messaging app.

Mr Zelensky urged Ukraine’s Western companions to extend stress on Moscow.

Russia launched dozens of missiles and greater than 600 drones in its early morning air assault throughout Ukraine together with on the capital Kyiv, prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko mentioned.

Earlier, the top of Kyiv’s navy administration, Timur Tkachenko, urged individuals to remain of their shelters till given the all-clear.

Ukraine’s power sector was once more one of many most important targets of the assaults, prompting emergency energy outages in various areas, together with the capital Kyiv and its surrounding area, Ukraine’s power ministry mentioned on Tuesday.

It was infrastructure in Ukraine’s western areas which suffered essentially the most injury, Ms Svyrydenko added.

Russian forces have attacked Kyiv and Ukraine’s power infrastructure within the early hours at this time, triggering emergency outages, simply two days after US-led Miami peace talks ended.

As of 6.20am GMT, air raid alerts coated practically all of Ukraine, in line with the nation’s air drive.

Debris fell close to a residential constructing in Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district, damaging home windows, mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.

Russia launched a significant early morning air assault on Ukraine at this time, the Ukrainian navy mentioned, simply hours after Volodymyr Zelensky warned Putin might strike exhausting over the festive interval.

“Air defence forces are working to eliminate the threat in the sky over the capital,” the Kyiv navy administration mentioned on Telegram.

It urged residents to stay in shelters till the all-clear is given.

Officials didn’t instantly report casualties or injury. The full-scale of the assault was not instantly identified.

Just hours earlier, Zelensky mentioned Ukraine is amping up its intelligence and air defence work forward of Christmas as Russian forces are anticipated to hold out huge air strikes.

“We understand that precisely on these days they may – this is in their nature – carry out massive strikes on Christmas. And today we had a Staff meeting on this, and the number one issue was air defence: the protection of our cities, villages, and communities, especially on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th. This needs to be paid attention to,” Zelensky had mentioned.

Several Ukrainian cities are below a significant air raid alert as Russian forces launched a large-scale missile and drone assault, together with hitting power websites within the war-hit nation’s far western areas.

Ukrainian public broadcaster reported explosions within the western cities of Rivne, within the communities of Burshtyn and Rohatyn within the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Explosions had been additionally heard on the outskirts of Cherkasy metropolis.

Ukraine’s Air Force has warned of a whole bunch of Russian drones and dozens of missiles launched in Ukraine’s course as air raid alerts had been sounded in nearly all elements of the nation.

Emergency energy outages have been imposed in a number of areas in view of Russian assaults on the power infrastructure, Ukraine’s power ministry mentioned.

“As soon as the security situation allows, rescue teams and energy specialists will begin addressing the consequences of the attack to restore electricity supply in the regions as quickly as possible,” the ministry said.

Poland has scrambled aircraft in the early hours today after Russia launched airstrikes on Ukraine, the Polish Armed Forces said.

The mobilisation of the Nato nation’s aircraft is to ensure airspace security, the armed forces said.

“Fighter jets were scrambled, and ground-based air-defence and radar reconnaissance systems were put on heightened readiness,” the operational command of the armed forces said.

“These measures are preventive in nature and are aimed at securing and protecting the airspace, especially in areas adjacent to the threatened regions,” it mentioned.