morning, residential buildings in several districts were struck, and loud explosions were heard across the city. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said a 13-year-old child was among the injured and that four people had been taken to hospital. This week, a similar attack on Kyiv killed seven people, Ukrainian authorities reported. The latest barrage came as Ukrainian negotiators were preparing to meet US officials this weekend to discuss a revised US peace proposal.

The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, confirmed that Saturday’s strike hit “multiple targets on the capital’s outskirts.” “Enemy drones are over the city, with air defence responding,” he wrote on Telegram. “Currently, in Kyiv there is a total of one dead and seven injured, including one child.” He added that the body of a man had been recovered by rescuers in the Sviatoshynskyi district, west of the city.

Two women were among the wounded in the town of Brovary, east of Kyiv, where the regional governor said “missiles and drones” had targeted residential areas. Klitschko reported that the strike had sparked a fire on the lower floors of a high-rise apartment building west of the city centre, while another blaze in a central district had been brought under control.

Earlier this week, Russia and Ukraine exchanged deadly overnight strikes that set fire to apartment buildings and killed seven people in Kyiv, while Russia’s Rostov region reported three deaths. Saturday’s attack comes amid President Donald Trump’s push for both sides to accept a draft peace plan, which was initially tilted heavily towards Moscow’s demands. The proposal was later revised during talks between Ukrainian and US negotiators in Geneva. (BBC)