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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Friday (May 15, 2026) that a Russian rocket onslaught connected a Kyiv flat gathering the erstwhile time killed 24 people, including what section officials said were 3 teenagers.
Emergency workers finished digging done the building's rubble aft much than a day, Mr. Zelenskyy said connected X.
The cruise rocket deed the nine-story country artifact during what the Ukrainian aerial unit said was Russia's biggest barrage of the state since its all-out invasion.
The battle mostly targeted the Ukrainian capital, wherever 48 radical were wounded, including 2 children, Mr. Zelenskyy said.
Russia hammered Ukraine with large-scale aerial attacks successful the days pursuing a May 9-11 ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump said helium asked Mr. Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to observe. Fighting went connected implicit those 72 hours, though reportedly connected a lesser scale.
This week's attacks ran antagonistic to caller suggestions from Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin that the war, present successful its 5th year, is adjacent to ending.
Mr. Zelenskyy said Thursday (May 14, 2026) that Moscow had launched much than 1,560 drones against Ukrainian colonisation centres since Wednesday. In all, immoderate 180 sites crossed the state were damaged, including much than 50 residential buildings, helium said.
Previously, the biggest Russian drone onslaught was from the evening of March 23 to the evening of March 24 erstwhile Moscow's forces fired astir 1,000 drones and missiles astatine Ukraine.
Ukraine has besides built up important long-range capabilities, and Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday that aerial defences downed 355 drones overnight successful 1 of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks of the war.
Several airports suspended flights overnight due to the fact that of the attacks.
Also, a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Ryazan, astir 100 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of Moscow, killed 4 people, including a child, Ryazan Governor Pavel Malkov said.
After the attack, monolithic plumes of achromatic fume spewed from a occurrence astatine a section lipid refinery. Ukraine has targeted Russian lipid facilities successful an effort to contradict captious export gross for Moscow and rattle the Kremlin.
Ukrainian officials made nary contiguous remark astir the Ryazan strike.
The Ukrainian superior observed an authoritative time of mourning Friday successful remembrance of those killed Thursday (May 14, 2026), and Mr. Zelenskyy visited the site.
The cruise rocket that deed the flat gathering was built successful the 2nd 4th of this year, Mr. Zelenskyy said, seemingly aft Ukrainian experts analyzed the wreckage.
“This means Russia is inactive importing the components, resources and instrumentality indispensable for rocket accumulation successful circumvention of planetary sanctions,” Mr. Zelenskyy said successful different station connected X precocious Thursday (May 14, 2026).
“Stopping Russia's sanctions evasion schemes indispensable beryllium a genuine precedence for each our partners,” helium said.
Russia and Ukraine person continued to occasionally swap prisoners of war, and 205 from each state returned location Friday.
Mr. Zelenskyy said it was the archetypal signifier of a planned 1,000-for-1,000 captive swap. Some of the Ukrainians released had been held successful Russian captivity since 2022, helium said, and had fought successful immoderate of the war's fiercest battles.
Russia's Defence Ministry confirmed the speech and thanked the United Arab Emirates for helping broker it.
