Zelenskyy says Putin ‘taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorise people’, as Kyiv hits lows of -20C
More than 1,000 residential buildings in Kyiv were without heating on Tuesday after a massive Russian air attack during one of the coldest nights of the winter, with temperatures in the capital falling to -20C.
Overnight, the Kremlin fired 450 attack drones and more than 70 missiles across the country. The strikes caused damage in five Kyiv districts and injured at least nine people. Flames consumed an apartment on the upper floors of a Kyiv building.
An air raid alert stayed in effect for more than five hours. Residents reported a series of loud explosions beginning at about 1am.
Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the cynical attacks showed Vladimir Putin was uninterested in peace, before the latest round of talks on Wednesday and Thursday in Abu Dhabi between Russia, Ukraine and the US.
