Massive Russian strike on Ukraine's capital kills several, injures dozens

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday he's cutting abbreviated his authoritative travel to South Africa and returning location aft a Russian onslaught connected the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killed astatine slightest 8 radical and injured much than 70.

Zelenskyy said successful a Telegram station that helium would alert backmost to Kyiv aft gathering with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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The Ukrainian person had hoped to enlistee further South African enactment successful efforts to extremity his country's warfare with Russia, present successful its 4th year.

The onslaught connected Kyiv came hours aft bid negotiations appeared to stall Wednesday, with President Trump lashing retired astatine Zelenskyy, saying helium was prolonging the "killing field" by pushing backmost connected ceding Crimea to Russia arsenic portion of a imaginable bid plan. Later successful the day, Mr. Trump said "it's been harder" to woody with Zelenskyy than with Russia.

Zelenskyy has said aggregate times that recognizing occupied territory arsenic Russian is simply a reddish enactment for his country. He noted Thursday that Ukraine had agreed to a U.S. ceasefire connection 44 days ago, arsenic a archetypal measurement to a negotiated peace, but that Russia's attacks had continued.

While talks person been going connected successful caller weeks, Russia has deed the metropolis of Sumy, sidesplitting much than 30 civilians gathered to observe Palm Sunday, battered Odesa with drones and blasted Zaporizhzhia with almighty glide bombs.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said connected societal media that the "brutal strikes" showed that Russia, not Ukraine, was the obstacle to peace, according to the Reuters quality agency.

According to Reuters, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova asserted Thursday that Zelensky was refusing to marque immoderate concessions successful the bid talks and would lone hold to a ceasefire connected his ain terms.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told Reuters 8 radical had been confirmed killed successful the capital. Officials had said earlier that 9 were killed.

The Kyiv City Military Administration said connected its Telegram transmission that Russia struck Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles. At slightest 45 drones were detected, the medication said, adding that Ukraine's Air Force would update the figures later.

At slightest 42 radical were hospitalized successful Kyiv, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. Operations were inactive underway aboriginal Thursday searching for bodies nether the rubble.

At a Kyiv residential gathering that was astir wholly destroyed, exigency workers removed rubble with their hands, rescuing a trapped pistillate who emerged from the wreckage covered successful achromatic particulate and moaning successful pain.

An aged pistillate sat against a ceramic wall, look smeared with blood, her eyes fixed to the crushed successful daze arsenic medics tended to her wounds.

Fires were reported successful respective residential buildings, said Tymur Tkachenko, the caput of the metropolis subject administration.

The attack, which began astir 1:00 a.m., deed astatine slightest 5 neighborhoods successful Kyiv. In the Sviatoshynkskyi district, a blaze broke retired successful a residential gathering that was damaged successful the attack.

The Associated Press saw rescue teams excavation retired radical trapped nether the rubble of the gathering and bodies being taken away.

Oksana Bilozir, a student, suffered a caput wounded successful the attack. With humor seeping from her bandaged head, she said she heard a large detonation aft the aerial alarm blared and began to drawback her things to fly to a structure erstwhile different blast caused her home's walls to crumble and the lights to spell off.

"I honestly don't adjacent cognize however this volition each end; it's precise scary," said Bilozir, referring to the warfare against Russia's invasion. "I lone judge that if we tin halt them connected the battlefield, past that's it. No diplomacy works here."

More fires were reported successful the Shevchenkivsky and Holosiivskyi districts.

Anastasiia Zhuravlova, 33, a parent of two, was sheltering successful a basement aft aggregate blasts damaged her home. Her household was sleeping erstwhile the archetypal detonation shattered their windows and sent room appliances flying successful the air. Shards of solid rained down connected them arsenic they rushed to instrumentality screen successful the corridor.

"After that we came to the structure due to the fact that it was scary and unsafe astatine home," she said.