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Russia Strikes Kyiv, Damages National Academy of Sciences
Confirmed
In Short: The attack damaged the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a cultural landmark in the capital, setting its building ablaze.
Russian forces struck downtown Kyiv on Monday, killing one woman and injuring 24 others, including three children, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
An aide to former National Security and Defense Council Secretary Volodymyr Horbulin was among the casualties in the strike on the National Academy of Sciences building.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed its forces struck two data centers, gas stations, and a pharmaceutical company in Kyiv.
In addition to the central strike, Russian drones hit non-residential buildings in Kyiv's Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
Local Telegram channels later showed another strike in central Kyiv, with videos showing a medical center belonging to Ukrainian private medical provider Dobrobut in flames.
The ceaseless Russian drone attacks on cities and towns aim to wear down Ukraine's resistance and cripple the Ukrainian economy.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Third Army Corps said it had recaptured another 51 square kilometers from the Russians, bringing the total to 176 square kilometers since the offensive began several months ago.
The claimed breakthroughs came in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has been trying in vain to conquer.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated Monday that the chances of making speedy headway on forging a peace settlement were bleak after recent Ukrainian attacks, including during recent parliamentary elections in Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to scale back Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries amid a global rise in diesel prices.
A Ukrainian official told Kyiv Independent that Ukraine would agree to stop attacking Russian refineries, but only if Russia also agrees to an energy truce.
According to the official, Kyiv has not agreed to anything so far.
What this adds
Moscow’s forces pounded apartment buildings, offices, data centers, and a building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in downtown Kyiv.
The strike hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the latest cultural landmark in the capital to be damaged.
Russian forces also hit a pharmaceutical company and gas stations in Kyiv.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces struck two data centers in Kyiv, as well as gas stations in the Ukrainian capital.
Background
Ukraine and Russia are growing increasingly frustrated with the U.S.-mediated peace process and with Washington's envoy, Steve Witkoff, according to people familiar with the matter.
A suicide bombing and subsequent gun battle at a mosque in Kohat, Pakistan, killed at least 16 people, including five police officers, and injured over 50.
What's confirmed
- Russian forces struck downtown Kyiv on Monday, killing one woman and injuring 24 others, including three children, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
- An aide to former National Security and Defense Council Secretary Volodymyr Horbulin was among the casualties in the strike on the National Academy of Sciences building.
- The Russian Defense Ministry claimed its forces struck two data centers, gas stations, and a pharmaceutical company in Kyiv.
- In addition to the central strike, Russian drones hit non-residential buildings in Kyiv's Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
- Local Telegram channels later showed another strike in central Kyiv, with videos showing a medical center belonging to Ukrainian private medical provider Dobrobut in flames.
- The ceaseless Russian drone attacks on cities and towns aim to wear down Ukraine's resistance and cripple the Ukrainian economy.
- Meanwhile, Ukraine's Third Army Corps said it had recaptured another 51 square kilometers from the Russians, bringing the total to 176 square kilometers since the offensive began several months ago.
- The claimed breakthroughs came in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has been trying in vain to conquer.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated Monday that the chances of making speedy headway on forging a peace settlement were bleak after recent Ukrainian attacks, including during recent parliamentary elections in Russia.
- U.S. President Donald Trump urged Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to scale back Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries amid a global rise in diesel prices.
- A Ukrainian official told Kyiv Independent that Ukraine would agree to stop attacking Russian refineries, but only if Russia also agrees to an energy truce.
- According to the official, Kyiv has not agreed to anything so far.
What's still developing
- KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia’s round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 50 others, officials said Monday.
- Four people, including two teenage girls, were hurt when a Russian drone struck a residential area in northern Ukraine’s Chernihiv region on Sunday evening, said Viacheslav Chaus, head of the regional military administration.
- Battlefield positions have changed little since last year, in part because swarms of drones severely restrict troop movements, but Kyiv’s forces launched a recent offensive, code-named Operation Vivaldi, on part of the 1,250-kilometer (800-mile) front line.
- Zelenskyy said long-range strikes on Russian soil hit two defense plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions and oil facilities in the Krasnodar region, all in southern and western Russia.
- In the city center, the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences building was set ablaze, while Education and Sciences Minister Andrii Butenko reported that one of the ministry's buildings was also damaged.
Sources
- Reuterslink
- ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videoslink
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Libertylink
- CBS Newslink
- Ewtnnewslink
- United24Medialink
- The Hollywood Reporterlink
- Kyivpostlink
- Dailysabahlink
- Thejournallink
- Science Newslink
- Aollink
- Al Jazeeralink
- Swimswamlink
- Aciafricalink
- WarpBeat — background on Ukraine, Russia Frustrated With US Envoy Witkoff link
- Al Jazeera English — video link