{"id":52281,"date":"2025-09-07T00:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/baby-among-two-killed-in-russian-drone-attack-on-kyiv-officials-say\/07\/09\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:43:20","slug":"baby-among-two-killed-in-russian-drone-attack-on-kyiv-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/baby-among-two-killed-in-russian-drone-attack-on-kyiv-officials-say\/07\/09\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby among two killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least two people have been killed and 11 injured in a new Russian overnight drone attack on Ukraine&#8217;s capital Kyiv, local officials have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the victims was a one-year-old baby, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Kyiv&#8217;s military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said Sunday. A young woman is also believed to have been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russian strikes were also targeted at Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s hometown in central Ukraine, where three infrastructure facilities were hit. Air raid warnings were activated overnight for all of the country&#8217;s regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fresh attack came as Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0m40pv44kgo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vladimir Putin has been hardening his warning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Vladimir Putin has been hardening his warning<\/a> on the West not to aid Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Overnight, several multi-storey residential buildings were partially destroyed and continued to be ablaze after direct hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The Russians are deliberately hitting civilian facilities,&#8221; Tkachenko said, urging Kyiv residents to remain in shelters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City authorities said residential buildings were hit in the western Svyatoshynkyi and south-eastern Darnytskyi districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were multiple explosions in Kyiv in the early morning, including at least one in the city centre, seen by the BBC. Several cruise missiles also targeted the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russia&#8217;s military has not commented on the reported drone strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czxwl15w2qko?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Putin rejected Western proposals for a &quot;reassurance force&quot; in Ukraine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Putin rejected Western proposals for a &#8220;reassurance force&#8221; in Ukraine<\/a> the day after any ceasefire comes into place, following a Paris summit aimed at finalising plans for security guarantees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">French President Emmanuel Macron said 26 of Ukraine&#8217;s allies had formally committed to deploying troops &#8220;by land, sea or air&#8221; to help provide security the moment fighting was brought to a halt. He gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Putin sought to quash the allies&#8217; initiative, warning that any troops deployed to Ukraine would be &#8220;legitimate targets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory &#8211; including the southern Crimea peninsula illegally annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/baby-among-two-killed-russian-041043090.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two people have been killed and 11 injured in a new Russian overnight drone attack on Ukraine&rsquo;s capital Kyiv, local<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/baby-among-two-killed-in-russian-drone-attack-on-kyiv-officials-say\/07\/09\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/sRgXt1C1BGaSTYdHG23pKQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bbc_us_articles_995\/b4b32fd79f3383649d5a912673ca882a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}