Russian forces struck Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles late on Sept. 7, killing two people and wounding ten others, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Five of the wounded were hospitalized, two in serious condition.
The attack came hours after US President Donald Trump's special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner departed Kyiv on the night of Sept. 7, following a visit aimed at brokering a partial ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had proposed a full aerial truce during the envoys' trip, and Kyiv said it would not strike Moscow for three days. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in turn, ordered his military to halt strikes on the Ukrainian capital from midnight Sept. 5.
Destruction and fires were reported in at least five districts of the capital. In the Solomensky district, debris fell on a five-story residential building, where rescuers evacuated trapped residents and one person was hospitalized. In the Holosiivsky district, a 26-story non-residential building was hit at the level of the 23rd floor. Fires were also extinguished in the Darnytsky, Podilsky and Dniprovsky districts, where warehouses, garages and cars burned. In Holosiivsky, a fire broke out on the grounds of an educational institution.
Later in the evening, drone strikes targeted the Boryspil and Fastiv districts of the Kyiv region, hitting industrial enterprises and a logistics complex. At one enterprise, fire destroyed seven trucks.