Russian missile strikes on Kyiv targeted railway workers, killing eight people, in one of six consecutive days of attacks on the city, reports infohub.kz.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at a security summit in Kyrgyzstan, said: "Every day spent in war pushes humanity back, and every step taken towards peace fills humanity with new hope and enthusiasm." Modi's country, whose economy depends heavily on discounted oil from Moscow, has made several similar pleas to Putin since the invasion of Ukraine began.
Overnight in Kyiv, eight people were killed and fires were reported in three city districts. Another four people were killed in the nearby town of Boryspil, where a residential building was hit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday morning that nearly 350 rescue workers had been working through the night in Kyiv and the surrounding region after the latest strikes.
In a social media post, he said Russia had fired a "significant number of jet drones and ballistic missiles". These attacks are part of six days of sustained Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, in what appears to be a strategy aimed at exhausting Ukrainian air defences and undermining civilian morale.
Russia's military warned over the weekend that it was preparing to carry out "massive" strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities. Zelensky said eight other Ukrainian regions were attacked, and an Indian national was among the casualties. Ukraine's Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivsky later confirmed that the Indian man, who turned 26 on Tuesday, was killed in Boryspil.
The attacks come after 38 people were killed in Russian strikes on a weapons depot in the Kyiv region on Friday, causing shells, mines and drones to detonate. Separately, a drone attack hit the major Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, triggering a fire, Leningrad regional Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said.
Ukraine considers targets like Ust-Luga, which handles millions of tons of petroleum products each year, legitimate as they help finance Moscow's war effort.