Russia launches missile attack on Kyiv, injuring residents

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Air strikes damage buildings and injure two civilians after Zelenskyy warns of potential for new attacks.

Russian forces have launched a missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv’s mayor said, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in his nightly video address that Russia was preparing new attacks on energy targets, bridges and other infrastructure.

Debris from Saturday’s attack damaged a residential building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

“Explosions in the Kyiv suburbs. The enemy is hitting infrastructure with ballistic missiles,” Klitschko wrote on Telegram.

Klitschko said debris had struck a five-storey apartment building in a western district of the capital. The facade of another residential building was also damaged.

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