As many as six people were killed in Russian military strikes on Kyiv on Thursday after Moscow’s forces announced the capture of a new town, a previous stronghold of Kyiv’s forces in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities confirmed that the latest strikes have killed six people, as drone and missile strikes hit at least 27 locations in Kyiv in the early hours, city officials said.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city's military administration, said on Telegram that "We have 52 wounded people, and almost 30 are in hospitals. Including nine children," he wrote.
This comes days after the United States president issued a 10-day ultimatum for Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.
These ongoing strikes have intensified after the Russian president announced a new offensive against Ukraine after forces in Kyiv attacked the Russian bomber fleet stationed at Siberia’s strategic base.
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According to reports, the Russian forces have captured the town of Chasiv Yar, which had been a strategically important military hub for Ukrainian forces in the east.
Confirming the development, the Russian defence ministry in a statement said, “The town was liberated by Russian forces.”
Russian forces, for the past few months, have been gaining swathes of land inside Ukraine in a bid to create a new buffer zone away from the strategic locations in Russia and recently liberated parts of Odessa and the Sumy region.
Thursday's attacks came just hours before a crucial parliamentary vote to overturn a highly criticised law that curbed the powers of anti-graft bodies.
President Volodymyr Zelensky changed the law after the original legislation sparked the largest public unrest since Russia's invasion more than three years ago.
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