Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in at least two districts of Ukraine's capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The city's emergency service said two people were injured.
Klitschko said on Telegram that falling debris from the strike ignited a fire in a non-residential area in a northern suburb. Several cars were also set ablaze, while another fire broke out south of the city centre.
Reuters witnesses reported hearing explosions across Kyiv as air raid alerts were activated after 2 a.m. Each of the two alerts lasted around 30 minutes.
Unofficial Telegram channels published images that appeared to show market stalls on fire in a suburban area.
Russia has stepped up air attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, as the war between the two countries continues.
Ukraine said earlier that its forces had carried out long-range strikes against a Russian military airfield and a rocket facility supporting Moscow’s emerging satellite internet network.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday (15 August) that Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missiles struck a rocket facility around 900 km from Ukraine’s border. Zelenskyy said the strikes were part of Kyiv’s effort to reduce Russia’s military capabilities and pressure Moscow to end the war.
“It is important that Russia’s war potential be reduced. Peace is needed, and this must be evident in Russia - through concrete damage to specific facilities,” Zelenskyy wrote on X.
Ukraine’s armed forces said direct hits were recorded at an airfield in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region and at the Progress rocket centre in the Samara region. Fires were reported at both locations.
A Russian strike on an apartment building in southeastern Ukraine on Saturday killed a three-month-old baby and wounded 11 people, Ukrainian officials said.
Drones struck the building in the town of Marhanets, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had struck Ukrainian logistics centres, energy and transport infrastructure, and facilities involved in assembling long-range drones and drone boats over the previous 24 hours.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he thinks there is a chance of a peace being reached with Ukraine. He told the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia that he believed there was "a chance of finding a solution," to the conflict.
U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will visit Russia then Ukraine over the weekend, Russian state news agency TASS has reported, citing an unnamed source. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also said American envoys will visit the capitals of both countries.
The Iranian Health Ministry said at least 18 people were killed and 142 others injured in U.S. airstrikes carried out between 30 August and 2 September.
The Iranian Army has again struck at U.S. bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for U.S. attacks on southern and western parts of Iran late on Tuesday, which reportedly killed 18 people and injured more than 100 others.
U.S. efforts to squeeze Iran’s economy through an oil blockade and sanctions are becoming increasingly difficult for Tehran to withstand, according to three senior Iranian sources. Washington is escalating pressure in hopes of securing concessions in future negotiations.
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The resolution, sponsored by African countries and led by Togo, passed by 164 votes to one, with six abstentions. The United States was the only country to vote against it.
Food prices around the world rose sharply in August, reaching their highest level since late 2022 as extreme weather and disruptions caused by conflicts drove the surge according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
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