Russian drones, missiles attack Kyiv, injure 6, cause damage

Ukrainian service members carry coffins with the body of their brothers-in-arms, who was recently killed in fighting against Russian troops, during a funeral ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 28, 2025. (REUTERS)
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Updated 29 November 2025
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Russian drones, missiles attack Kyiv, injure 6, cause damage

  • Strikes targetted at six locations, with apartment buildings and other dwellings hit in the city of 3 million, says head of Kyiv’s military administration

KYIV: Russian drones and missiles attacked districts of Kyiv early on Saturday, injuring six people, officials said, with explosions sounding and drone debris falling.
The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said there had been strikes at six locations, with apartment buildings and other dwellings hit in the city of 3 million.
“Enemy drones are over the city, with air defense responding. There are multiple targets on the capital’s outskirts,” Tkachenko said on Telegram.
Tkachenko said six people had been injured, including a child and one person in hospital in serious condition.




People take shelter at a metro station during an air attack in Kyiv on November 29, 2025, amid a Russian drone and missile attack. (AFP)

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a strike had triggered a fire in the lower floors of a high-rise apartment block west of the city center. Another fire broke out and was quickly brought under control in a central district.
“There are currently seven injured in the capital. Four of them have been hospitalized by medics,” Klitschko said, also on Telegram.
Earlier, he posted that a 13-year-old child was among the wounded.
Residential buildings in several districts of the city and cars were damaged, the mayor said.
Earlier this week, Russian drones and missiles rained down on Kyiv during the night, setting fires in apartment buildings.
City officials said seven people were killed.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the worst armed conflict in Europe since World War II.
The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced millions to flee their homes.

 


Ukraine’s Zelensky: We have backed US peace proposals to get a deal done

Updated 13 February 2026
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Ukraine’s Zelensky: We have backed US peace proposals to get a deal done

  • “The tactic we chose is for the Americans not to think that we want to continue the war,” Zelensky ‌told The Atlantic

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv ‌had sought to back US peace proposals to end the war with Russia as President Donald Trump seeks to resolve the conflict before ​November mid-term elections.
Zelensky, in an interview published by The Atlantic on Thursday, said Kyiv was willing to hold both a presidential election and a referendum on a deal, but would not settle for an accord that was detrimental to Ukraine’s interests.
“The tactic we chose is for the Americans not to think that we want to continue the war,” Zelensky ‌told the ‌US-based publication. “That’s why we started supporting their ​proposals in ‌any ⁠format ​that speeds ⁠things along.”
He said Ukraine was “not afraid of anything. Are we ready for elections? We’re ready. Are we ready for a referendum? We’re ready.”
Zelensky has sought to build good relations with Washington since an Oval Office meeting in February 2025 descended into a shouting match with Trump and US Vice President JD ⁠Vance.
But he said he had rejected a ‌proposal, reported this week by the ‌Financial Times, to announce the votes ​on February 24, the fourth ‌anniversary of Russia’s invasion. A ceasefire and proposed US security ‌guarantees against a future invasion had not yet been settled, he said.
“No one is clinging to power,” The Atlantic quoted him as saying. “I am ready for elections. But for that we need security, guarantees ‌of security, a ceasefire.”
And he added: “I don’t think we should put a bad deal ⁠up for a ⁠referendum.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Zelensky is not a legitimate negotiating partner because he has not faced election since coming to power in 2019.
Zelensky has said in recent weeks that a document on security guarantees for Ukraine is all but ready to be signed.
But, in his remarks, he acknowledged that details remained unresolved, including whether the US would be willing to shoot down incoming missiles over Ukraine if Russia were to violate the peace.
“This hasn’t been fixed ​yet,” Zelensky said. “We have raised ​it, and we will continue to raise these questions...We need all of this to be written out.”