Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow launches third round of strikes in a week on Kyiv as Zelensky renews Nato bid
Russia launched fresh missile strikes on Kyiv in the early hours today, triggering fires and injuring at least two people, officials said. It was the third round of attacks on the Ukrainian capital this week.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said the strikes caused a fire in a storage area and a non-residential building in two areas on either side of the Dnipro river. The attacks left two people injured, one of whom required treatment in hospital, and prompted an air raid alert that lasted for about an hour.
Earlier, a missile strike in the southern port city of Odesa injured 10 people, eight of whom needed to be taken to hospital, regional governor Oleh Kiper said.
The latest strikes came as Volodymyr Zelensky renewed his plea to join Nato at a gathering of the group’s leaders in Ankara, Turkey. The Ukrainian president, who was expected to meet Donald Trump later today, said his war-torn country “belongs in Nato”.
He also said that Europe needed to ram up anti-ballistic missile production “urgently”.
