Russia carried out its third consecutive overnight airstrike on Kyiv, leaving one person injured and damaging multiple homes in the surrounding region, as reported by the governor of Kyiv on Monday.
A 37-year-old person received shrapnel wounds in his upper body and head, governor Mykola Kalashnyk said in a post on Telegram messaging app.
“The person has been hospitalised,” Kalashnyk said.
Late on Sunday, in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, Russia’s attack injured a 54-year-old woman and damaged windows of multi-story and residential buildings, the region’s administration said on Telegram.
Strikes Follow Peace Talks
The attacks came after a Ukrainian delegation met with U.S. officials for peace talks in Saudi Arabia, and ahead of Russia-U.S. talks there on Monday to discuss ways to ensure the safety of shipping in the Black Sea.
The United States is pushing for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, and hopes to reach a broad ceasefire in the war by April 20, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the planning.
But despite the peace push, both sides have been reporting continued strikes.
The full-scale of the overnight attack was not immediately clear.
There was no immediate comment from Russia. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia started with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv, its surrounding region and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts several hours starting late on Sunday, according to Ukraine air force maps.
Firefighters Battle Blaze
Meanwhile, firefighters continued for the fifth day to fight a fire at an oil depot in Russia’s Krasnodar region, sparked last week by a drone attack that authorities blamed on Ukraine, the regional administration said.
“One of the tanks and oil products inside the facility are burning,” the administration said in a post on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday local time.
As of 1700 GMT on Sunday, the area of the fire at the depot near the village of Kavkazskaya was around 2,000 square metres (21,500 square feet), the administration said on Telegram.
The fire area nearly doubled the night before following an oil products spill.
The Russian foreign ministry said the attack amounted to a violation of an agreement to halt attacks on energy infrastructure under efforts to secure a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
Local authorities had brought in firefighting trains loaded with water to help to battle the blaze on Saturday.
The depot is a rail terminal for Russian oil supplies for a pipeline to Kazakhstan.
(With inputs from Reuters)
