“We have 27 locations that were attacked by the enemy. We currently have over 2000 people working there, rescuers, police, municipal services and doctors,” he told reporters at the scene of one of the attacks.
Olena Lapyshniak, 49, was shaken from the attack that nearly levelled her apartment building. She heard a whistling sound and then two explosions that blew out her windows and doors.
Red Cross volunteers evacuate an injured woman.Credit: AP
“It’s horrible, it’s scary, in one moment there is no life,” she said. “There’s no military infrastructure here, nothing here, nothing. It’s horrible when people just die at night.”
People were wounded in the city’s Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said fires broke out in two other city districts as a result of falling debris from drones shot down by Ukrainian air defences.
Canada, which assumed the presidency of the G7 this year, invited Zelensky to the summit, where he is expected to hold one-on-one meetings with world leaders.
Zelensky was set to meet with US President Donald Trump in Canada on Tuesday, though Trump returned unexpectedly to Washington on Monday night because of tensions in the Middle East.
An apartment building burns after the attack.Credit: AP
Russia has launched a record number of drones and missiles in recent weeks. Moscow escalated attacks after Ukraine’s Security Service agency staged an audacious operation targeting war planes in air bases deep inside Russian territory.
Little progress had emerged from direct peace talks held in Istanbul, with the exception of prisoner exchanges, expected to conclude next week, Zelensky said.
