MOSCOW, July 06 (Agencies): Russia fired missiles and drones into apartment buildings in Kyiv for the second time in a week on Monday, killing at least 18 people on the eve of a crucial NATO summit, authorities said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the alliance to take "strong decisions" on boosting Ukraine's air defences following the strike, which came just days after another Russian attack killed more than 30 people in Kyiv.
Rescue crews were pulling residents from buildings shattered by the overnight barrage, said Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Tkachenko said the death toll included two bodies pulled out of a heavily damaged apartment building in the historic Podilskyi district. Altogether, 24 people were injured throughout the city.
He said four residential buildings had been struck in the Podilskyi district alone.
Klitschko said rescuers were pulling residents from apartments damaged on both sides of a building.
"From a building in the Podilskyi district, where a partial collapse occurred, rescuers evacuated 15 people," he wrote on Telegram. "Three women and six children were taken down from the upper floors."
Klitschko said two people had died in the eastern Darnytskyi district, where drone fragments struck a 25-storey apartment building, and rescue teams were working to free residents trapped on upper floors.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Air Force says a "serious shortage" of interceptor missiles meant none of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia at Kyiv on Sunday night were shot down.
At least 12 people were killed in the second large-scale Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital in a week, officials said. Six more were killed in the wider Kyiv region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed for allies to take "strong decisions" at the this week's Nato summit to provide Kyiv with air defences.
After the strikes, he said the Ukrainian military had been successful in intercepting cruise missiles and drones - but not ballistic missiles.
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