The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.

"The enemy attack on Kyiv is ongoing," Kyiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a post to Telegram early Tuesday local time.

Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.

The attack is a bleak reminder that Ukrainians continue to suffer from Russian brutality, almost four years after Vladimir Putin first initiated his land grab.

Serhiy Akhmetov sat down with RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service a few weeks after his release from Russian prison for an interview in which he recalled beatings, food shortages, and desperate efforts to get news after he was arrested in Bucha by Russian soldiers.

Pope Leo XIV looks at drawings given to him by Ukrainian young people who have been returned to Ukraine after having been forcibly taken to Russia during a meeting in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 21, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

A documentary capturing first-person accounts of the Holodomor, the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933 that starved millions to death, is now available to view in full on the Minnesota PBS affiliate’s website after its broadcast premiere ...

In Russia, a major oil terminal near the port of Novorossiysk stopped operations Saturday after a strike by unmanned boats damaged one of its three mooring points, according to a statement from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC, which owns the terminal.