At least eight people were injured after Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early today with drones and missiles, triggering fires and strewing debris in districts throughout the city, the city’s mayor said.
The overnight strikes come after several days of some 800 attacks on targets inside Russia, including capital Moscow. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov vowed yesterday to respond to those attacks.
Yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin of making a “mockery of the entire world” in its delay to respond to calls for a ceasefire after the first stage of a large-scale prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia.
The Ukrainian president renewed calls for global pressure on Moscow for a ceasefire after 390 prisoners were returned to Ukraine yesterday, with more to follow over the weekend in the “thousand for a thousand” war swap. The swap took place at the border with Belarus in northern Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official.
“It is clearly time to increase the pressure on Russia, to achieve not just one result, but everything that is necessary,” Mr Zelensky said in a video on X.
