{"id":329,"date":"2026-05-24T05:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:36:54","slug":"russia-strikes-kyiv-with-massive-missile-and-drone-attack-killing-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Russia strikes Kyiv with massive missile and drone attack, killing one"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>KYIV &#8211; Russia struck Ukraine&#8217;s capital Kyiv on Sunday with a massive wave of missiles and drones that damaged residential buildings, offices and schools, killing at least one person and injuring 21, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=327\">China lowers death toll in Shanxi coal mine disaster to 82<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Explosions reverberated through the city just after 1 a.m. (2200 GMT Saturday), following a warning by Ukraine&#8217;s air force on its Telegram channel that Russia might launch a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The air force did not respond to a request for comment on whether an Oreshnik struck any target during the attack.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that one person was believed to have been killed after a nine-story residential building in the capital&#8217;s central district of Shevchenko was hit. Emergency services were at the site extinguishing a blaze, the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Klitschko said 21 people were injured, with 13 of those hospitalized, three of them in serious condition. Air raid sirens sounded again after sunrise on Sunday in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Many residents sought shelter overnight in the city&#8217;s metro stations. Nataliia Zvarych, 62, said she had rushed to her local station as explosions started rocking the city.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was terrifying, scary,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We have been sitting here for more than three hours now, listening to the explosions up there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In Shevchenko, several people were trapped inside an air raid shelter at a school after a strike blocked its entrance with debris, Klitschko said. <\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>More people were believed to be stuck inside a shelter at a business centre in the same neighbourhood, the head of the city&#8217;s military administration said. He said more than 40 locations in the city had been damaged.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Strikes were reported in other parts of Ukraine. Three more people were injured in the broader Kyiv region, according to the governor, Mykola Kalashnyk.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=325\">Trump says Iran deal \u2018largely negotiated\u2019, dispute over strait reopening<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>SUNRISE REVEALS DAMAGE<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>As the sun rose, black smoke from several fires drifted across the city&#8217;s skyline, Reuters images showed. Fire workers used hoses to douse the flames in damaged buildings, and rescue workers evacuated the wounded.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The front facade of one five-storey residential building in Shevchenko had collapsed, images showed. Officials reported damage to offices, shops, and the foyer of a metro station.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In the city&#8217;s historic Independence Square, a post office was damaged by an explosion. <\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Russia was preparing a strike against Ukraine using the Oreshnik missile, citing intelligence from Ukraine, the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Russia has already attacked Ukraine twice with the Oreshnik, a missile Russian President Vladimir Putin has boasted is impossible to intercept because of its reported velocity of more than 10 times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy&#8217;s warning came after Putin ordered his military to prepare options for retaliation against Ukraine for a drone strike on a student dorm in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s military denied the accusations and said it had targeted a Russian drone command unit. <\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring Poland activated its military aviation amid the large-scale strikes on Sunday but no violations of its airspace were detected, the Polish army said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Yuliia Dysa and Daniel Flynn in Kyiv; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Kim Coghill)<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=323\">Columbia parking deck set to close amid city\u2019s capital improvement plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p><i> Copyright Reuters or USA Today Network via Reuters Connect.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV &#8211; Russia struck Ukraine&#39;s capital Kyiv on Sunday with a massive wave of missiles and drones that damaged residential buildings, offices and schools, killing at least one person and injuring 21, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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