Symbolic imageRussian strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv hit amid disputed energy ceasefire
Russian attacks hit a Kyiv high-rise and Kharkiv's power and housing on Monday. Kyiv says Moscow is violating the energy ceasefire Trump announced.
A Russian jet drone struck a 25-storey building in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district between the 12th and 16th floors on Monday, 12 October, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Kyiv's prosecutor's office says two people died, a 59-year-old woman and a person in a nearby car, while Reuters reports one dead. Klitschko counted 11 injured, three of them hospitalised; prosecutors list at least seven, including a 17-year-old.
Kharkiv plant and apartment block
Russia hit a thermal power plant in Kharkiv, wounding 12 and destroying natural gas production infrastructure, according to Ukrainian officials and Naftogaz. In the evening, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Banderol missiles collapsed a section of a five-storey block in Kholodnohirskyi district, and people may be trapped. Meduza cites regional head Oleh Syniehubov: five injured so far.
Energy ceasefire in dispute
Trump announced the ceasefire on Sunday; Zelensky said he learned of it from the press and would comply if Moscow did, and the Kremlin has not commented. At the Warsaw Security Forum, Zelensky accused Russia of violating it and urged Washington to make Moscow respect it.