Russia resumes strikes on Kyiv after three-day pause expires
Air raids damaged two residential buildings in Kyiv as US envoys’ talks in Moscow and Kyiv produced no reported breakthrough.
Russian strikes reportedly resumed on Kyiv early Tuesday after a three-day pause on attacks against the Russian and Ukrainian capitals expired. Kyiv officials said air raids damaged two residential buildings, while Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported drone attacks in the capital and the Boryspil and Fastiv districts.
The Kyiv city military administration issued an air-raid alert and urged residents to take shelter. Casualty figures from the reported attacks remained unconfirmed.
In Russia, Saratov Governor Roman Busargin said a Ukrainian drone attack hit civilian infrastructure and injured several people. The account had not been independently corroborated, and the number of casualties was unclear.
The pause followed visits to Moscow and Kyiv by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Fighting reportedly continued elsewhere during the suspension, which was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and was not necessarily a formal ceasefire.
Witkoff described his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as meaningful and said he was encouraged. The Kremlin called the envoys’ meeting in Moscow highly useful, but no tangible progress towards peace or agreement was reported.
A White House official told Reuters that further steps on the war would be announced in the coming weeks. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
