Massive Russian attack on Kyiv and new corruption investigations in Ukraine

War in UkraineMassive Russian attack on Kyiv

According to authorities, there are many dead and injured. In a Kiev district, the upper floors of a nine-story residential building are destroyed. A children's hospital is also damaged.

Much information about the course of the war, such as casualty numbers or details about fighting, comes from Ukrainian or Russian authorities and cannot be independently verified.

According to authorities, at least 15 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Russian air strikes on Kiev and the surrounding region. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired dozens of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles as well as 168 drones overnight.

In the Solomyanskj district of Kiev, the upper floors of a nine-story residential building were destroyed. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said eight people died there. He declared a day of mourning for Friday.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergiy Koretskyy said that food warehouses and Red Cross facilities were also damaged in the almost nine-hour shelling.

In view of increased Russian attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again called on Western allies to increase their stocks of Patriot anti-missiles.

The Russian-occupied Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is cut off from its last remaining external power line. Diesel emergency power generators take over the supply.

Ukraine's grain exports by rail collapsed by 77 percent in the first 18 days of August due to the blockade of Black Sea ports.

In the large city of Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean peninsula, the electricity is switched off again.

Against the background of new investigations by the Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities, the government in Kiev wants to relieve the chairman of the supervisory board and the CEO of a state-owned bank from their duties.

The federal government wants to provide 50 million euros to repair the protective shell around the Chernobyl nuclear ruins that was damaged by a drone strike.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who was fired in July, has called for elections in the middle of the war against Russia.