Kyiv Rocked By Explosions: Russia-Ukraine Live Updates - The New York Times

“The Russians deliberation that this volition assistance them but these actions look much similar agony,” said Andriy Yermak, a apical advisor to Ukraine’s president.

The Russian onslaught 1 week agone was 1 of the broadest successful months, which President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said intentionally targeted civilians and powerfulness infrastructure. Missiles deed cities crossed the state successful the Oct. 10 strikes, sidesplitting astatine slightest 19 people.

The latest onslaught connected Kyiv came arsenic galore radical were preparing for enactment and children were conscionable waking up for their schoolhouse day, arsenic acquisition has returned to in-person classes this autumn. Instead of heading to classrooms, the children of the superior city, immoderate already dressed successful their schoolhouse uniforms, made their mode to basement shelters to hold retired the threat.

The humming sound of an motor passed comparatively dilatory implicit the metropolis successful the inactive of the greeting betwixt the blasts, a telltale motion of a drone arriving successful the capital. Air raid sirens went disconnected astir 10 minutes earlier the attacks.

In streets adjacent the tract of 1 strike, an acrid fume wafted about. The precocious stories of an bureau gathering were burning and debris, breached solid and documents littered the pavement nearby. The gathering appeared to person been bare erstwhile it was deed soon aft 6 a.m.

Vitali Klitschko, the politician of Kyiv, successful a station connected Telegram, confirmed that a onslaught had deed the cardinal Shevchenko district, the aforesaid portion of cardinal Kyiv targeted 1 week ago. He urged residents to enactment successful shelters.

Austin Ramzy contributed reporting.

On Monday, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus announced that Russian troops would instrumentality to his state successful ample numbers, a replay of the subject buildup determination that preceded Russia’s penetration of Ukraine.

“This won’t beryllium conscionable a 1000 troops,” Mr. Lukashenko told elder subject and information officials successful Minsk, the Belarusian capital.

The Belarusian Defense Ministry said Sunday connected Telegram that the “aviation component” of the caller force, whose nonstop intent has not been spelled out, had started arriving from Russia.

Mr. Lukashenko has repeatedly said that helium does not privation his subject to articulation Russia’s combat successful Ukraine, but analysts enactment that helium emphatically denied Russia would onslaught Ukraine from his territory conscionable days earlier the penetration started.

A renewed Russian violative successful bluish Ukraine from Belarus would further grow a struggle that Russia initially expected to past conscionable a fewer days but has present raged for much than 7 months.

The constitution of a associated unit with Russia volition astir apt reenforce the presumption successful Ukraine that Belarus is intelligibly a “co-aggressor,” a statement that Mr. Lukashenko has rejected but took connected caller unit connected Monday aft a barrage of Russian rocket attacks connected Kyiv and elsewhere, immoderate of them launched from Belarusian territory, according to Ukrainian officials.

“This greeting a bid of explosions has rocked the temporarily occupied metropolis of Donetsk, and a section medication gathering has caught fire,” the Ukrainian equipped forces said successful a station connected one of its Telegram channels connected Sunday, but did not assertion work for the attack.

Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti quality outlet besides said that the premises of the metropolis medication had been deed by an onslaught connected Sunday, blaming “shelling by Ukrainian troops.” It said immoderate radical had been hospitalized, without offering details.

Images and videos posted connected societal media appeared to amusement debris scattered passim the building, fume pouring from breached windows and cars connected occurrence successful the parking lot. The footage could not beryllium instantly verified.

The metropolis has been occupied by pro-Russian forces since the struggle successful eastbound Ukraine began successful 2014. Since then, a Russian puppet medication that calls itself the Donetsk People’s Republic has been governing the metropolis and parts of the wider Donetsk region.

Last month, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said helium was formally annexing each of the Donetsk portion and 3 different areas of Ukraine wherever his forces assertion partial power — a determination wide condemned arsenic illegal. Ukrainian troops person been gaining crushed successful astir of those areas, including successful Donetsk, wherever they precocious reclaimed the strategical railway hub of Lyman.