Russian strikes kill nine across Ukraine as fire breaks out at centuries-old religious landmark in Kyiv
· Sky NewsA large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine has killed five rescue workers in Kharkiv and four people in Kyiv, as strikes set apartment buildings ablaze and sparked a fire at one of the country's most significant religious landmarks.
The fresh strikes came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had spoken to US President Donald Trump on Sunday and discussed efforts to achieve an end to the four-year conflict, ahead of a G7 meeting in France this week.
The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site founded in 1051, was seriously damaged in what Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko called "a brutal assault on our people and our heritage".
Four people were killed and 23 others injured when drones and missiles struck several high-rise apartment buildings and damaged electricity lines in Kyiv, authorities said.
In Kharkiv, five emergency service rescuers were killed and at least another five injured in a Russian strike, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said.
Meanwhile in Russia, three people were killed and another three, including a one-year-old child, were injured in a drone attack on the city of Tula south of Moscow on Monday, the regional governor said.
Moscow was also repelling a drone attack overnight, its mayor said on social media.
Both Russia and Ukraine deny deliberately attacking civilians.
Neighbouring Poland, an EU and NATO member, scrambled fighter jets against a possible airspace incursion, before recalling the alert and saying no sky violation had been recorded, its armed forces said in a post on X.
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