Russia resumes strikes on Ukraine as truce expires
Russia has resumed strikes on Ukraine after a three-day truce expired, with drone attacks reported over Kyiv and deadly strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian authorities said.
Officials said the capital came under drone attack as the ceasefire ended, with Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration, warning residents that enemy unmanned aerial vehicles were over the city and urging them to stay safe until the alert was cleared.
Kyiv's regional military administration also told people to remain in shelters.
In the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, one man was killed and at least four other people were wounded, according to regional authorities.
Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional military administration, said a man and a woman were hurt in the Synelnykove area, while three others were wounded elsewhere in the region.
The renewed attacks matter because they came immediately after a US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire that had been announced to begin on 9 May.
The truce had been expected to reduce fighting, but both sides accused each other of violations during the pause.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said fighting had continued despite the truce and accused Moscow of not wanting to end the war.
In his daily address, he said there had been no silence at the front and that the situation had been recorded.
Russian officials said their air defences intercepted and destroyed 27 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov regions after the ceasefire expired.
The Russian defence ministry said the drones were shot down between midnight and 7am Moscow time.
Separate reports said Russian forces also targeted the Fastiv region near Kyiv, where a kindergarten, a four-storey residential building and two private homes were damaged.
