Russia launched its third consecutive overnight air attack on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, injuring one person and damaging several houses in the region.
Kyiv’s regional governor, Mykola Kalashnyk, in a post on the Telegram messaging app, said on Monday that a 37-year-old person sustained shrapnel wounds to his upper body and head.
“The person has been hospitalized,” Kalashnyk said.
The region’s administration said on Telegram that late on Sunday, in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, Russia’s attack injured a 54-year-old woman and damaged windows of multi-story and residential buildings.
The attacks came after a Ukrainian delegation met with U.S. officials for peace talks in Saudi Arabia and ahead of Russia-U.S. talks there on Monday to discuss ways to ensure the safety of shipping in the Black Sea.
The United States is said to be pushing for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia and hopes to reach a broad ceasefire in the war by April 20.
However, despite the peace push, both sides have been reporting continued strikes.
The full scale of the overnight attack was not immediately clear, and there was no immediate comment from Russia at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, both sides have repeatedly denied targeting civilians in the war that Russia started with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
According to Ukraine’s air force maps, Kyiv, its surrounding region, and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts for several hours starting late on Sunday.
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