Overnight attacks kill 18 and severely damage buildings including those housing EU delegation and British Council
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The UK and European Union have summoned their Russian envoys after overnight missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least 18 people and damaged the city’s British Council and EU offices in the most deadly aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Four children are among the 17 reported dead after a residential building was struck in the middle of the night within the eastern Darnytskyi district, according to Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko.
Hours later, another person was killed in a separate blast in Kyiv’s central Shevchenkivskyi district, which left the buildings and offices – including those housing the EU delegation to Ukraine and the British Council – severely damaged.
