At least one person has died after a Russian missile attack on Kyiv sparked several fires throughout the city, Ukrainian officials said.
Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said a nine-year-old child is among three people who were injured as a result of the airstrikes.
He added that emergency services were called to at least four districts of the Ukrainian capital.
Kyiv’s military administration has said fires broke out at several residential and non-residential buildings due to the strikes.
The person who died was killed in the Obolonsky district of the city, the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine said on Telegram.
The SES added that another person was injured in the district and two office buildings were destroyed – with one of them catching fire.
Pic: State Emergency Service
Rescue workers respond to the Russian attack. Pic: State Emergency Service
There was also a fire on the roof of a multi-storey building in Sviatoshynskyi due to the Russian attack, the SES said.
The Holosiivskyi district was also targeted – where a fire broke out in a two-storey warehouse building due to strikes.
The SES said more than 80 rescuers are working at the scene.
Air raid alerts sounded out at the start of the Russian attack at around 4:30am Ukraine time (2:30am UK time).
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An emergency responder in Kyiv. Pic: State Emergency Service
It was not immediately clear what missiles were used, but the late launch of air raid alerts suggests they were difficult to detect by radar.
“Russia carried out a missile strike on Kyiv and the Kyiv region,” Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of
staff, said.
“This is how (Russian President Vladimir Putin) wants the war to end.”
Prospects for renewed peace negotiations to end the war that Russia launched on Ukraine nearly three years ago have increased after US President Donald Trump said that he had been in contact with Kyiv and the Russian president.
Mr Zelenskyy also said on Tuesday that Kyiv will soon hold talks with US officials.
