Kyiv
\nOne person has been killed and 26 others were injured after a night of intensive Russian strikes on almost every district in Kyiv, officials say.
\nA pall of acrid smoke hung over the Ukrainian capital on Friday morning following hours of nightfall punctuated by the staccato of air defence guns, buzz of drones and large explosions. Ukraine said Russia fired a record 550 drones and 11 missiles.
\nThe strikes came hours after a call between US President Donald Trump and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, after which Trump said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d that Putin was not ready to end the war against Ukraine.
\nMoscow says the war will continue for as long as it is necessary to reach its objectives.
\nRussia\u2019s overnight air strikes broke another record, Ukraine\u2019s air force said, with 72 of the 550 drones penetrating air defences – up from a previous record of 537 launched last Saturday night.
\nAir raid alerts sounded for more than eight hours as several waves of attacks struck Kyiv, the \u201cmain target of the strikes\u201d, the air force said on the messaging app Telegram.
\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned one of the most \u201cdemonstratively significant and cynical\u201d attacks of the war, describing a \u201charsh, sleepless night\u201d.
\nNoting that it came directly after Putin\u2019s call with Trump, Zelensky added in a post on Telegram: \u201cRussia once again demonstrates that it does not intend to end the war\u201d.
\nHe called on international allies – particularly the US – to increase pressure on Moscow and impose greater sanctions.
\nFootage shared on social media by Ukraine\u2019s state emergency service showed firefighters battling to extinguish fires in Kyiv after Russia\u2019s large-scale overnight attack.
\nRescuers also found a dead body while going through the rubble in the Svyatoshynsky district, the head of the Kyiv city military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said.
\nAccording to Ukrainian authorities, railway infrastructure was damaged and schools, buildings and cars set ablaze across the capital.
\nPoland\u2019s Foreign Minister, Rados\u0142aw Sikorski, said the Polish consulate had also been damaged.
\nThe Russian strikes also hit the regions of Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Chernihiv.
\nRussia\u2019s defence ministry said the \u201cmassive strike\u201d had been launched in response to the \u201cterrorist acts of the Kyiv regime\u201d.
\nThe acting governor of Russia\u2019s southern Rostov region said a woman was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a village not far from the border on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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