Russia launched a series of missile assaults on the Ukrainian city of Kyiv on Sunday as G7 leaders gathered in Germany for the opening day of their annual conference.
A Russian missile attack on a residential apartment tower in Kyiv killed one person and injured at least six others. Volodymyr Bondarenko, the city's Deputy Mayor, said four of the injured have been brought to hospitals as search and rescue activities continue.
Russian Missiles Hit Cities in Ukraine
Bondarenko also stated that the missile attack hit a kindergarten, but no one was harmed, and footage from Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs showed a big missile funnel in the school's garden. A 7-year-old child was among those injured in the residential complex, he added. Her mother, Katerina, 35, was pulled from the wreckage and loaded into an ambulance. She is a Russian national who has lived in Kyiv for a long time.
A CNN team on the scene met with the injured girl's grandmother, Natalia Nikitina, who learned about the attack online and hurried to the apartment building, where she grieved as she watched rescuers struggle to save her daughter-in-law.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, stated on Telegram that numerous explosions occurred in the city's Shevchenkivskyi neighborhood and that search and rescue efforts were initiated after a fire broke out after a residential structure was damaged by a rocket, CNN reported.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated that Western nations cannot become weary in the struggle against Russia and must "stand up to freedom and democracy." Johnson described the United States as "a bright city on a hill, and it will continue to be" in the quest for Ukrainian freedom. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin's victory in taking over Ukraine "catastrophic."
Russia has made inroads in eastern Ukraine despite prior failures to destabilize Zelenskyy's administration or conquer Kyiv. The fresh offensive on Kyiv occurred a day after Ukrainian soldiers were withdrawn from the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, a huge win for Russia after weeks of violent combat that had resulted in international food and gasoline price spikes.
Russia currently controls nearly the whole Luhansk province, which is part of the eastern Donbas area that Moscow is attempting to take over as one of its key military objectives. Russian rocket assaults were claimed to have been fired from Belarusian airspace over Ukraine on Saturday, only hours before Putin met with Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg, Russia, as per VOA News.
West Countries Address Russia-Ukraine War's Impact
Western leaders seemed at ease as they began their three-day G7 conference in Germany, with Boris Johnson joking that the group was tougher than Vladimir Putin but also demonstrating unity in their reaction to his Ukraine incursion.
They were gathering to explore how to safeguard energy supply and combat inflation, as well as how to keep the global coalition working to punish Moscow from splintering. Amid concern over Western leaders' willingness to continue supporting Ukraine during a protracted battle, Johnson said President Putin must not be allowed to rip Russia's neighbor apart with impunity.
The prime minister, US President Joe Biden, and their counterparts from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, as well as the European Union, spent the first day in both formal and informal settings, including addressing the impact of the war on the global economy.
They revealed infrastructure plans for developing countries as part of a new collaboration to provide an alternative to Russian and Chinese investment. The United States and other G7 nations hope to generate $600 billion by 2027, according to Sky News.
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