KYIV – Russian drones tore into central Kyiv on Wednesday morning, wounding nine people and damaging residential and university buildings on the seventh day of nearly round-the-clock attacks that have upended daily life in the city.
Moscow’s new air campaign against the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region has killed dozens of civilians and disrupted logistics as Kyiv struggles to shoot down the jet-powered drones that have swarmed the area in waves.
Wednesday’s attack on a downtown university took place while students were in class, forcing some 160 to seek shelter, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
The mounting attacks come as Ukraine braces for a new season of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, amid a critical shortage of US designed missile interceptors needed to down Moscow’s ballistic missiles.
Earlier on Wednesday, Russia struck power facilities in the southern Odesa region with missiles and drones, authorities said, knocking out power to more than 350,000 homes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said late on Tuesday he had ordered his forces to prepare the new campaign of “massive” strikes.
“Unfortunately, there has been far too little response from the world and its most influential leaders to this latest Russian escalation of strikes,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.
Two people were also killed and eight wounded in Russian strikes on the southeastern city of Dnipro, the regional governor said, where food warehouses and educational buildings were damaged.
