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At least nine people have been killed in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv, local officials said.<\/b><\/p>\n
A further 28 people were injured in the attack on the Ukrainian capital on Saturday morning, according to the country’s State Emergency Service.<\/p>\n
Moscow has escalated deadly ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv recently, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to say that missile interceptors are urgently needed.<\/p>\n
The strikes come two days after a suspected Russian cruise missile landed in Poland during a widespread attack on Ukraine that killed at least eight people, including six members of one family<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the capital had come under a ballistic missile attack on Saturday, with AFP reporting more than 10 explosions. <\/p>\n Fires broke out across the city and power cuts were reported in some areas.<\/p>\n Klitschko said a residential building in Shevchenkivskyi was partially destroyed, trapping people inside. <\/p>\n The emergency services said at least seven people were killed in a strike in the Darnytskyi district. Another 14 were injured, including two children, it reported.<\/p>\n In Solomyanskyi district, two people died and eight were injured, including two children, as a five-storey residential building was partially destroyed, officials said.<\/p>\n A missile landed near the Lithuanian embassy, breaking windows and scattering debris in the compound, Lithuania’s foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n