A Russian drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev has killed at least one person and injured seven others, city officials say.
Residential buildings were affected in several districts early Saturday morning and loud explosions were heard across the city.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a 13-year-old boy was among the injured and four people were taken to hospital.
Ukrainian officials said seven people were killed in a similar attack in Kiev earlier this week. The latest bombing came as Ukrainian negotiators were preparing for talks with US officials later this week over a revised US peace plan.
The head of Kiev’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, confirmed that Saturday’s strike hit “several targets on the outskirts of the capital.”
“Enemy drones are over the city, air defense is responding,” he wrote on Telegram.
“Currently, there is a total of one dead and seven injured in Kiev, including a child.”
Tkachenko confirmed that rescue workers had recovered the body of a man in the Svyatoshinsky district, west of the city.
Two women were among the wounded in the town of Brovary, east of Kiev, after the regional governor said “missiles and drones” targeted residential areas.
Klitschko said the attack caused a fire in the lower floors of a high-rise apartment block west of the city centre, while another fire in the central district was brought under control.
Earlier this week, Russia and Ukraine traded deadly attacks overnight, with apartment buildings set on fire and seven people killed in Kiev, while three were killed in Russia’s Rostov region.
Saturday’s attack comes as President Donald Trump pressures both sides to accept a draft peace plan that was initially tilted toward Moscow’s demands. It was later revised during talks between Ukrainian and American negotiators in Geneva.
On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin reiterated his main demands to end the war, saying Russia would stop its offensive only if Ukrainian troops withdraw from territory Moscow claims.
Putin also confirmed that a US delegation, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, is expected to arrive in Moscow in the first half of next week to discuss the draft peace plan at the center of the talks.
Zelensky said in a video address late Thursday that Ukrainian and US delegations would meet “to translate the points achieved in Geneva into a form that puts us on the path to guaranteeing peace and security”.
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