Death toll rises to 21 with more than 80 injured in huge Russian attack on Kyiv –as it happened

Damage recorded in 30 locations across in the city from overnight attacks, with ‘most of them ordinary residential buildings’ The number of people killed in Kyiv after Russia’s overnight attack has risen to 20, according to a local official. More than 56 others were injured after a barrage of Russian drones and missiles struck the Ukrainian capital. At least 21 people were killed and dozens injured overnight in Kyiv, local authorities said, in what the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko claimed was the worst Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital during more than four year’s of Russia’s air assault on Ukraine (9:25). Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to “definitely” retaliate against Russia as he visited one of the sites of the attack (16:48). EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she would propose further sanctions on Russia, saying “the more Moscow attacks civilians, the more sanctions must be imposed” (9:31). Over in Germany, chancellor Friedrich Merz has laid out his plans for wide-ranging reforms in a bid to revive the country’s struggling economy and counter the rise of the far-right ahead of key land elections this autumn (10:09). German pros

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