Russia hammers Kyiv with missiles and drones on eve of Nato summit

{"text":[[{"start":7.7,"text":"Russia launched its second major air attack on the Ukrainian capital in less than a week, striking Kyiv early on Monday with missiles and suicide drones on the eve of the Nato summit in Turkey."}],[{"start":19.4,"text":"At least 12 people were killed and 43 others injured, including two children, according to authorities. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said rescue operations were under way at strike locations in three districts of the capital. "}],[{"start":34.45,"text":"The emergency service said at least 15 residential buildings were damaged or destroyed by successive waves of ballistic and cruise missiles and attack drones, which tore through the city early on Monday. Thick plumes of black smoke blanketed Kyiv as the sun rose on Monday and air-raid sirens wailed, warning of more Russian projectiles."}],[{"start":54.900000000000006,"text":"One apartment building in the historic Podil neighbourhood took a direct hit and partially collapsed, said Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko. He said some people had been trapped on its upper floors."}],[{"start":66.25,"text":"In the city of Vyshneve, near Kyiv, authorities evacuated about 500 residents after a Russian strike on a weapons depot caused secondary detonations. Videos posted on social media showed munitions from the Ukrainian stockpile exploding into the air and surrounding residential area."}],[{"start":84.55,"text":"Russia’s defence ministry claimed it had targeted “military industry enterprises and fuel and energy facilities in Kyiv and the Kyiv region”, according to a statement carried by state media. Other targets included military airfields in the Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine, the ministry said."}],[{"start":105.19999999999999,"text":"Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched 68 ballistic and cruise missiles and 351 attack drones and decoys. It said air defences intercepted 37 missiles and 326 drones."}],[{"start":118.54999999999998,"text":"The assault followed Russia’s deadliest aerial bombardment of Kyiv this year, an overnight barrage on July 2 that killed 31 people as Moscow launched 74 missiles and nearly 500 suicide drones at the Ukrainian capital."}],[{"start":133.64999999999998,"text":"President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in his Sunday evening address that Ukrainian intelligence indicated that Russians were “preparing a new massive strike” on Kyiv “right after America’s Independence Day and before the Nato summit in Ankara”, which begins on Tuesday."}],[{"start":149.29999999999998,"text":"On Monday, Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine had an “insufficient supply of interceptor missiles” needed to shoot down Russia’s ballistic missiles, which travel at high speeds on steep, arcing trajectories."}],[{"start":161.45,"text":"“As long as Patriot missiles remain in our allies’ stockpiles, Russia is only encouraged to keep ‘vanquishing’ residential buildings,” he wrote on social media."}],[{"start":null,"text":"

"}],[{"start":172.1,"text":"Zelenskyy said it was up to the Trump administration and Nato allies to send more Patriot interceptors."}],[{"start":178.4,"text":"“The United States and Europe have enough strength to stop this terror,” he said. “It is critically important that the world — first and foremost the United States and our European partners — come out of the Nato summit in Ankara with strong decisions in support of our air defence, and thus the protection of ordinary people’s lives.”"}],[{"start":197.75,"text":"The White House confirmed on Sunday that President Donald Trump would meet Zelenskyy at the summit in Ankara."}],[{"start":204.7,"text":"Trump, who spoke with Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday, told both men that he wanted to see the war end and would try to revive US-brokered trilateral peace talks that stalled after Washington launched its war with Iran in February."}],[{"start":219.1,"text":"“There is a real prospect to put an end to this war, and America’s resolve is decisive,” Zelenskyy said after his call with Trump."}],[{"start":227.4,"text":"The Ukrainian president has ordered his military to conduct a summer deep-strike campaign “to compel” Putin to come to the negotiating table. Ukraine has struck Russian energy infrastructure at an unprecedented rate, according to an FT data analysis that shows Kyiv’s intensified drone attacks are spurring Russia’s worst fuel crisis in decades."}],[{"start":249.95000000000002,"text":"Early on Monday, Ukrainian long-range drone strikes damaged infrastructure in the areas of the major oil-exporting ports of Ust-Luga and Vysotsk in the Leningrad region, Russia’s Tass news agency quoted governor Alexander Drozdenko as saying."}],[{"start":267.1,"text":"But Putin has remained unfazed. Donning military fatigues during a visit with senior military leadership on Friday, the Russian president vowed to push on with his invasion, claiming battlefield gains in the eastern Donetsk region – which Kyiv disputed – and saying that Moscow would continue launching large-scale air strikes on Ukraine."}],[{"start":292.6,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1783334851_7386.mp3"}