{"id":11510,"date":"2026-06-02T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:01:41","slug":"russian-attack-kills-at-least-18-in-ukraine-some-of-them-children-buried-under-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=11510","title":{"rendered":"Russian attack kills at least 18 in Ukraine, some of them children buried under rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"

By SAMYA KULLAB and VASILISA STEPANENKO<\/strong><\/p>\n

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 18 civilians and wounding more than 100 others, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>

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The damage trapped some people under the rubble of apartment buildings. Emergency crews digging through the wreckage pulled out the body of a 3-year-old child and the bodies of a mother and her 8-year-old son in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, officials said.<\/p>\n

The attack stretched from night into day and the boom of explosions reverberated across cities. Officials said that 12 people were killed in Dnipro and six in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Kyiv residents had been on edge for days after Russia warned that a massive aerial attack was coming and warned foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital. None appeared to heed the call.<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for more U.S. and European support, describing the massive overnight attack as \u201can explicit statement by Russia: If Ukraine is not protected from ballistic missiles and other missile strikes, those strikes will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up Moscow\u2019s aerial campaign against Ukraine, with Russian forces recently launching a powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile for only the third time in the four-year war.<\/p>\n

The Russian strategy seeks to take advantage of Ukraine\u2019s shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles, with international stocks depleted by the Iran war. That has left civilians especially vulnerable to the Russian ballistic missile barrages, even as air defenses stop most of the attack drones.<\/p>

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    Kyiv mother and daughter shelter in a bath tub<\/h4>\n

    At least 64 people were wounded in the capital, emergency services said. Kyiv resident Iryna Salikova, 37, spent the night lying in a bath tub for protection with her 3-year-old daughter, as blasts reverberated across the city.<\/p>\n

    \u201cOur window was broken. A cobblestone flew into the children\u2019s room,\u201d Salikova said, though they weren\u2019t hurt. \u201cThank God we\u2019re alive. Today we\u2019re alive, today we\u2019re lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Russia unleashed 73 missiles and 656 drones across Ukraine, according to the country\u2019s air force, with the main targets including Kyiv, the central city of Dnipro, and the eastern cities of Poltava, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed or suppressed 40 missiles and 602 drones.<\/p>\n