KYIV: Russia fired missiles and drones into apartment buildings in Kyiv for the second time in a week Monday, killing at least 24 people on the eve of a crucial NATO summit, Ukrainian authorities said.
The attack hit just days after another Russian strike killed more than 30 people in the Ukrainian capital.
President Volodymyr Zelensky decried the “brutal strike,” saying that “the Russians’ tactics are unchanged: to inflict as much pain and damage as possible on Ukrainians and on Ukraine.”
Zelensky — expected to hold talks with US counterpart Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Turkiye — pleaded for the alliance to boost Ukraine’s air defense against Russia’s ballistic missiles.
He said Kyiv was successful in shooting down drones and cruise missiles but had “not enough means of defense” against hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles.
