Trump tells Putin to “stop” after Russian attacks kill 12 people in Kiev

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Military Administration of the city of Kiev, said there were 12 dead.

“The air strike siren played, we didn’t even have time to get dressed to get out of the apartment. There was one explosion after another, all windows, doors and walls were blown up, my husband and son were thrown to the other side,” said Viktoria Bakal, Kiev’s resident.

Zelenskiy said in X that Russia used a North Korean ballistic missile in the attack, citing preliminary information. A Ukrainian military source told Reuters earlier that a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district, west of the center of Kiev, was hit by a North Korean ballistic missile KN-23 (KN-23A).

Russia launched 145 drones and 70 missiles, including 11 ballistic missiles in the night attack, the Ukraine Air Force said on Telegram. Air Force units slaughtered 112 targets.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that, in addition to Kiev and the surrounding region, seven other regions were under “mass” attack. Damage was recorded in the city of Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country, the second largest of Ukraine, in the Zhytomyr region, west of Kiev, and in the industrial city of Pavlohrad, which is in central Dnipropetrovsk.

(Report by Yulia Dys, Ron Popski and Anna Prchnicka)