NewzThree others wounded as jet-powered drones increasingly target Ukraine’s capital, with medical centre also hitEurope live – latest updatesRussia has hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv with a drone, killing at least one person in the latest daytime attack on Ukraine’s capital.Flames tore through the historic building on Monday as people clambered out of first- and second-floor windows to escape, in dramatic scenes increasingly familiar in the heavily bombarded city. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80 others, officials said Monday.Moscow’s forces pounded apartment buildings, offices, gas stations, data centers and a building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in downtown Kyiv, among other targets.The ceaseless Russian drone attacks on cities and towns aim to wear down Ukraine’s resistance and cripple the Ukrainian economy.The attacks followed a week of diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to get traction for negotiations on ending Moscow’s invasion that began 4½ years ago.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated Monday that the chances of making speedy headway on forging a peace settlement were bleak after recent Ukrainian attacks, including during recent parliamentary elections in Russia.“Ukraine will have to pay a price for the actions that have taken place in recent months,” Peskov told reporters. “That is happening right now.”Russian attacks leave dead and wounded across UkraineRussian drone attacks on the Kyiv region killed four people and wounded eight, officials said.A woman was killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district on Monday afternoon, the Kyiv city military administration said.
The strike hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the latest cultural landmark in the capital to be damaged.Some staff escaped the burning building by climbing from windows down firefighters' ladders.Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the Russians were conducting a campaign of “pure terror” on the civilian population.“The terror goes on,” he told reporters at the site of the academy strike. “For more than a week Russia has kept attacking Kyiv, disrupting normal life in the city and destroying buildings.”Russian forces also hit a pharmaceutical company and gas stations in Kyiv.One drone struck an office center in central Dnipro during working hours Monday, killing three people and wounding at least 18, local authorities said.A Russian strike on a nine-story apartment building in the northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded 43 people, including 11 children, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.Thirty civilians were injured in Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia, officials said, while another Russian attack damaged a multistory apartment building in Odesa, wounding three people, according to Oleh Kiper, head of the…
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