Russia-Ukraine war live: several blasts hit central Kyiv; conflict has pushed four million children into poverty, says UN - The Guardian

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The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh is sheltering successful an underpass astatine Kyiv station, adjacent to wherever this morning’s attacks occurred:

Strikes occured adjacent Kyiv cardinal station, nary casualties

The caput of Ukraine’s authorities railway, Alexander Kamyshin, says that the shelling occurred adjacent Kyiv cardinal presumption – confirming what the Guardian’s Daniel Boffey, who is astatine the station, said a fewer moments ago.

So acold determination are nary known casualties from the strikes adjacent the station, though residential buildings were besides damaged successful the attacks.

Residential buildings deed successful Kyiv attack

Kyiv politician Vitali Klitschko says that “several residential buildings” person been damaged successful the strikes connected Kyiv this morning, and that medics are connected site.

In a station connected Telegram, Kitschko wrote:

As a effect of the drone attack, a occurrence broke retired successful a non-residential gathering successful the Shevchenkiv territory of Kyiv. Fire departments are working. Several residential buildings were damaged. Medics are connected the spot. We are clarifying the accusation astir the victims.

Andriy Yermak, the caput of the President’s Office, said successful a station connected Telegram confirming the Kamikaze drone onslaught connected Kyiv this morning, “We request much aerial defence systems and arsenic soon arsenic possible. We person nary clip for dilatory actions. More weapons to support the entity and destruct the enemy. So beryllium it.”

At astir 6.30 am, Guardian correspondents successful Kyiv heard 2 blasts followed moments aboriginal by a third.

Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko confirmed 2 blasts successful the metropolis centre’s Shevchenkiv territory connected his Telegram channel.

Kyiv deed by Kamikaze drones

Citing Andriy Yermak, the caput of the President’s Office, the Kyiv station confirms that Kyiv was deed by kamikaze drones.

According to Ukrainian subject officials, “kamikaze drones” are cheaper and little blase than missiles but person proved effective astatine causing harm to targets connected the ground. The Shahed-136 drones are capable to stay airborne for respective hours and ellipse implicit imaginable targets earlier being flown into force troops, armour oregon buildings and exploding connected impact.

The Guardian’s Daniel Boffey is successful Kyiv bid presumption and heard 3 drone strikes nearby:

Explosions heard successful Kyiv

The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins is successful Kyiv, wherever she has heard astatine slightest 3 explosions this morning.

On Telegram, Kyiv politician Vitali Klitschko wrote:

Welcome and summary

Hello and invited to our unrecorded sum of the warfare successful Ukraine. My sanction is Helen Sullivan and I’ll beryllium taking you done the latest for the adjacent fewer hours.

The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins is successful Kyiv, wherever she has heard astatine slightest 3 explosions this morning.

Meanwhile, Russia’s penetration of Ukraine and the resulting economical fallout person thrown 4 cardinal children into poorness crossed eastbound Europe and Central Asia, Unicef said Monday.

“Children are bearing the heaviest load of the economical situation caused by the warfare successful Ukraine,” Unicef said.

The struggle “and rising ostentation person driven an further 4 cardinal children crossed eastbound Europe and Central Asia into poverty, a 19 percent summation since 2021”, it said.

Unicef drew its conclusions from a survey of information from 22 countries.

More connected these developments shortly. In the meantime, present is simply a summary of cardinal caller news:

• Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said a “very severe” concern persists successful the eastbound Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with the “most difficult” warring adjacent the municipality of Bakhmut. The attacks came arsenic Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine nears the eight-month mark.

• Pro-Kremlin officials connected Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket onslaught that struck the mayor’s bureau successful Donetsk, a metropolis controlled by the separatists, portion Ukrainian officials said Russian rocket strikes deed a municipality adjacent the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, among different targets.

• More than 30 settlements crossed Ukraine person been deed by Russian strikes successful the past day, according to the Ukrainian military. Two schools successful the confederate Zaporizhzhia portion were reportedly destroyed successful the strikes, which targeted civilian areas.

• The Ukrainian subject said the estimated fig of Russians killed since the commencement of the warfare has reached 65,000. Sunday morning’s update from the wide unit of the Ukrainian equipped forces said the decease toll had risen by 300 implicit the past 24 hours.

• In Ukraine, 423 children person been killed since the commencement of the penetration the office of the Ukrainian authoritative general said. It added that a further 810 children had been injured successful the struggle and that the highest fig of kid casualties were successful the regions of Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv.

• Ukraine has succeeded successful maintaining its vigor stableness aft Russian attacks past week that targeted cardinal parts of its infrastructure, Ukrainian premier curate Denys Shmyhal said. In a post connected Facebook, Shmyhal said that successful the archetypal 3 days of the week, Russia launched up to 130 rocket and drone strikes against civilian and vigor facilities, peculiarly successful the capital, Kyiv.

• Russia is “probably incapable of producing precocious munitions astatine the complaint they are being expended”, according to the latest update from the UK Ministry of Defence.

• US and allied information officials judge Iran has agreed to supply Russia with surface-to-surface missiles and onslaught drones intended for usage successful Ukraine. The taxable is owed to beryllium discussed by EU overseas ministers successful a gathering successful Luxembourg connected Monday.

• The Belarusian defence ministry has said conscionable nether 9,000 Russian troops volition beryllium stationed successful Belarus arsenic portion of a “regional grouping” of forces to support its borders. Last week, the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, said his troops would beryllium deployed with Russian forces adjacent the Ukrainian borderline arsenic portion of a “joint grouping”, citing what helium said were threats from Ukraine and the west.

• Russian soldiers person reportedly changeable dormant Ukrainian conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko successful his home aft helium refused to instrumentality portion successful a concert successful occupied Kherson. The performance was “intended by the occupiers to show the alleged ‘improvement of peaceful life’ successful Kherson”, Kyiv’s civilization ministry said successful a statement connected its Facebook page.

• US-based thinktank The Institute for the Study of War has said Russia continues to behaviour “massive, forced deportations” of Ukrainians that “likely magnitude to a deliberate taste cleansing campaign”. In its latest assessment of the conflict, the Institute for the Study of War notes that Russian officials person “openly admitted to placing children from occupied areas of Ukraine up for adoption with Russian families”.

• Poverty successful Ukraine has accrued tenfold since the commencement of the war, a apical World Bank authoritative has said. Arup Banerji, the bank’s determination manager for eastbound Europe, said Russian attacks connected civilian infrastructure distant from the frontlines of the struggle person analyzable the already dire economical situation.