NewzKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day on Monday, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses, as Ukraine reels from attacks with jet-powered drones. Russia has intensified its aerial attacks in recent months, more than four years after it invaded its neighbor. Almost constant air raid alerts in the Kyiv region in recent days have severely disrupted daily routines.
Two major attacks in July killed almost 50 civilians, and a strike on Saturday killed at least 38 people. Classes were due to resume at Ukrainian schools on Tuesday, but it was unclear whether parents would send their children. Schools have air raid shelters, and classes can also be held online.
But about 1 million textbooks have been destroyed in Russian attacks on publishing houses, potentially delaying deliveries for the start of the school year, Ukraine’s Education Ministry said earlier this month. “Right now, Russia’s tactic is to wear down Ukraine and Ukrainians — first and foremost, our people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media late Sunday. Ukraine has also tried to make Russian civilians feel the burden of war by hammering major online retailers and oil facilities.
The attacks have brought shortages for ordinary Russians, but the assaults haven’t been as deadly for Russian civilians as the attacks on Ukrainians are. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the war are on ice after making little progress last year on key issues and with Washington’s attention now gripped by the Iran war. Zelenskyy is keen to restart the mediation, however, and he said that he had “a good call” Monday with U.S.
President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, describing their phone conversation as “detailed and constructive.” “Importantly, the dialogue between negotiating teams of the U.S. and Ukraine continues all the time, and now we are talking about locking in the dates for the visit to Ukraine” by Witkoff and Kushner, Zelenskyy said on social media. Ukraine builds technology to counter jet-powered drones A pall of black smoke drifted over Kyiv on Monday morning.
In Brovary and Boryspil, cities in the Kyiv region, the aerial attacks struck several warehouses and four people were wounded, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional mil… The attacks have brought shortages for ordinary Russians, though the assaults haven't been as deadly for civilians.Ukraine builds technology to counter jet-powered dronesA pall of black smoke drifted over Kyiv on Monday morning. He didn't elaborate.A Kyiv official says Ukrainians won't go hungryRepeated Russian strikes on food distribution centers and retail hubs have …
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