KYIV — Russia pummeled Kyiv with drones and missiles early on Tuesday, resuming its air attacks after a brief halt for the visit of U.S. peace negotiators, and killing three people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The post Russia hits Kyiv after pause for US envoys’ visit, killing three appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald .
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The flag flies on a roof as smoke rises in the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine September 8, 2026. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
KYIV — Russia pummeled Kyiv with drones and missiles early on Tuesday, resuming its air attacks after a brief halt for the visit of U.S. peace negotiators, and killing three people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The attack caused fires in several districts across the Ukrainian capital, damaging at least 14 high-rise buildings, a dorm, a school, a clinic, warehouses and other sites, officials said.
“Kyiv was exploding and burning,” Katarina Mathernova, the EU ambassador to Ukraine, said in a social media post.
In another strike, a Russian drone partially destroyed a Ukrainian TV channel building in Kyiv, injuring five people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The number of wounded in the city had reached 19 by midday, authorities said.
Russia resumed its attacks after U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff left Kyiv on Sunday following talks with Zelenskyy, as the Trump administration renewed its push to end Russia’s 4-1/2-year war in Ukraine.
They arrived following talks in Moscow, after which the Kremlin said it did not rule out the resumption of the three-way negotiations.
Both Moscow and Kyiv halted strikes on their capitals for three days to ensure the security of the U.S. peace negotiators.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urged allies to ramp up pressure on Moscow, as well as to provide interceptors to down ballistic missiles, since Kyiv’s stocks of these have run critically low.
Describing the attack as a complex one aimed at causing “as much harm to life as possible,” Zelenskyy said ballistic missiles were still “particularly difficult” to intercept.
Ukraine’s air force said it downed nearly all cruise missiles and two ballistic missiles.
Prior to the talks, Russia had stepped up air attacks on Kyiv and nearby areas to nearly round-the-clock, rather than mainly at night, using faster jet-propelled drones that killed residents and disrupted activities.
The Russian defense ministry said Moscow hit military and logistic targets in Kyiv and the surrounding region, as well as in the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk, Russian news agencies said.
Aside from Kyiv, eight other regions were targeted, Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said. Close to 100 people were evacuated after Russian drones hit a train in the northern Sumy region, he said.
The head of Ukrainian rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia said another commuter train was hit in the region. Passengers had been evacuated but not all were at a safe distance and some suffered shrapnel wounds, he said.
A railway worker was killed in a Russian double-tap drone strike on a passenger train in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, emergency services said, adding that all passengers were evacuated.
Three people were wounded in an attack on a market on the outskirts of the Black Sea port city of Odesa, the governor said.
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