Nine killed in strikes on Kyiv, as Ukraine sinks Russian container ship
Moscow has been escalating deadly ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine's capital At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Moscow has escalated deadly ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv recently, prompting Zelensky to say that missile interceptors are urgently needed. The strikes come two days after a suspected Russian cruise missile landed in Poland during a widespread attack on Ukraine that killed at least eight people, including six members of one family. Separately, Ukrainian drones sank a Russian-owned container ship in the Black Sea on Saturday. Moscow said all 17 crew were rescued.
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In Solomyanskyi district, two people died and eight were injured, including two children, as a five-storey residential building was partially destroyed, officials said.