At least 12 people were killed overnight Monday into Tuesday in the first Russian airstrikes on Kyiv since the three-day ceasefire prompted by the visit of U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, authorities in the capital said. Administrative buildings, warehouses, schools and residential buildings were damaged in six districts of Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported.
At least 10 people were injured. The overnight attack extended beyond the Ukrainian capital to the Odesa region. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it "a complex strike" that "tried to plan to cause as much harm to life as possible." Both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered a pause on attacks on Moscow and Kyiv as Witkoff and Kushner traveled to both capitals for talks over the weekend.
"Please come more often, so that our people have the chance to live normally," the Ukrainian leader joked at a press conference with the U.S. envoys in Kyiv on Sunday. "As soon as the U.S. presidential peace envoys left the city, Putin launched another massive and horrific attack on Kyiv," Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha said on Tuesday. "[Putin's] ballistic missiles speak louder than his words on diplomacy," the minister added.On September 6, U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Kyiv for the first time as Washington renewed its peace efforts, following talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Witkoff said "substantive progress was made" during the visits, "including movement on scheduling additional trilateral talks". Veronika Melkozerova contributed reporting.
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