A barrage of Russian missiles and drones killed at least eight people in Ukraine’s capital, including a child, early on Thursday, officials said.
The authorities reported that 22 other people were injured in the strikes on Kyiv, the capital, and that residents were trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building.
A five-story apartment building was destroyed and other houses damaged. A missile also struck a shopping mall in central Kyiv, the authorities said. Fires were reported in several parts of the city, and missiles and drones could still be heard flying overhead at dawn.
Earlier, on Wednesday evening, air raid warnings and reports from social media sites that track Russian attacks prompted some residents to head to subway stations to spend the night. Others arrived after hearing explosions.
Tetyana Ivashchuk, 64, arrived at a subway station in central Kyiv at 3 a.m. and spent hours sitting on a bench. “I always come when it’s scary,” she said.
At first, only about a dozen people came to the station, but others arrived as the attacks continued grew. By 6 a.m., more than 100 people were sleeping on the floor, even as the first trains began taking others to work.
Above ground, smoke rose over the city, and ambulances rushed to the strike sites. The barrage was a stark reminder that the war raged on, almost two weeks after President Trump’s Aug. 15 talks with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine announced on Wednesday that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, and the head of the country’s security council, Rustem Umerov, would meet with Mr. Trump’s team on Friday in New York to discuss security guarantees to be included in any future peace agreement.
Maria Varenikova covers Ukraine and its war with Russia.
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