Buildings reportedly damaged in capital and Kharkiv also under fire hours after US president says ‘we’re doing very well with Ukraine and Russia’. What we know on day 1,441
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital with missiles early on Tuesday, officials said, with initial reports saying apartment blocks and other buildings had suffered damage. Witnesses reported loud explosions in Kyiv and said missiles and drones were being deployed. Several apartment buildings, an education establishment and a commercial building had been damaged in districts east of the Dnipro River, Kyiv military administration chief, Tymur Tkachenko, said on Telegram. Mayor Vitali Klitschko ordered emergency medical crews to affected parts of the capital. Russian missiles and drones were also attacking Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the north-east, mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The governor of south-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region said his region was also under attack and anti-aircraft units were in action in neighbouring Zaporizhzhia region.
Donald Trump said earlier that his administration may have some good news soon on its push to end the war in Ukraine. “I think we’re doing very well with Ukraine and Russia. For the first time, I’m saying that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “I think we’re going to, maybe, have some good news.”
