KYIV Russian forces blasted Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in one of the largest two-day air assaults since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, with at least 24 people killed, including three children, in the capital, authorities said early on May 15.
Rescue crews continued to search through the rubble of a partially destroyed nine-story apartment building in the Darnytskiy district of Kyiv, with more fatalities likely among the dozens of people injured in the attacks that began on May 13.
"Rescuers continue clearing the rubble and searching for people in the building in Darnytskiy district nonstop," Ukraine's state emergency servicewrote on Telegram.
Authorities said 18 units were destroyed in the strike on the nine-story building. At least 20 people are listed as missing in the Darnytskiy district.
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that at least 57 people were injured throughout the capital, 27 of whom were hospitalized.
"Everything was burning. People were screaming...people were shouting," Andriy, a Kyiv resident wearing blood-stained night clothes, told AFP near a collapsed residential building.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that, according to initial reports, a Russian Kh-101 subsonic cruise missile struck the apartment building. He called for heightened diplomatic efforts to prevent Russia from developing such weapons.
