THE NEW YORK TIMES: The assault came soon after President Trump threatened new sanctions against Moscow if the bloodshed didn’t let up.
Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital with a furious missile and drone attack before dawn on Thursday, killing at least six civilians in an assault that came soon after President Trump had warned Moscow of new sanctions if such violence persisted.
Rescuers raced to more than two dozen locations around the capital, Kyiv, to put out fires and search for survivors in the rubble of blasted apartment buildings.
“We have 52 injured, nearly 30 hospitalized,” Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the city’s military administration, said in a statement at 7 a.m. local time. “Among them, nine children were injured.” One child was among the deceased.
The number of dead and wounded was likely to grow, Mr. Tkachenko warned.
The assault came shortly after President Trump threatened new sanctions on Moscow if President Vladimir V. Putin did not put a halt to the bloodshed in 10 days. Russian officials dismissed the warning, and many in Kyiv saw the bombardment as Mr. Putin’s way of thumbing his nose at the United States. » | Marc Santora | Reporting from Kyiv | Thursday, July 31, 2025
