Russia and Ukraine continued to duel on Wednesday, a day before a three-day ceasefire of Russia had to come into effect. A strike in Kiev killed two people and injured another eight, including four children.
Russia had offered the truce to start on Wednesday at midnight to commemorate the 80th birthday of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Foreign dignitaries, including the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, were planned to attend a Victory Day parade in Moscow on Friday.
President VolodyMyr Zensky van Ukraine rejected the offer as short to make meaningful negotiations possible to end the war and said that Vladimir V. Putin van Russia had proposed the truce alone to put guests of the Russian parade at ease. Ukraine has said it will stick to a ceasefire If it is extended for 30 days.
A rocket and drone attack on KYIV on Wednesday followed one Ukrainian exploding drone attack On Moscow on Tuesday that a building in Moscow damaged, forcing airports to close the Russian capital to close for a few hours. Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, wrote in a post on Telegram that air defense forces shot seven Ukrainian drones near the city on Wednesday.
In KYIV on Wednesday, the authorities warned of a threat of Russian ballistic rockets flying to the city shortly before explosions vary around 1 o’clock, it was unclear whether the rockets were intercepted or goals in or near Kiev.
Later the military manager of KYIV reported damage due to rubble after air defense forces shot down exploding drones over the city. Air defense teams with machine guns had opened the fire through the city center.
Ukrainian officials also reported damage and fires to an office building, a high -rise buildings under construction and an apartment block in various neighborhoods of Kiev and in the suburbs of the city. The two victims were found in an apartment building that had set fire to, according to firefighters. Among the wounded were three children who suffered burns.
Elsewhere in the country, local authorities reported in Zaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine, fires and damage caused by a volley of drones that hit the city.
In Russia, the governors of two regions in the south and southeast of Moscow reported the Ukrainian drone attacks at night.
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