One person died and four people, including a seven-year-old girl, were taken to hospital following the early morning strikes, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
Rescuers work near a damaged residential building, which was damaged as a result of a missile strike by the Russian army.Russian strikes hit a residential building in Kyiv, the city's mayor says, in the first attack on Ukraine's capital in almost three weeks.
The Artyom factory "was the target, as military infrastructure", the Russian defence ministry said, adding that it had already been targeted in April.Russian forces carried out strikes against three military training centres in northern and western Ukraine, including one near the Polish border. On the sidelines of the G7 summit, both leaders "agreed this is a critical moment for the course of the conflict, and there is an opportunity to turn the tide in the war", Downing Street said.
"We have to stay together," Mr Biden told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the host of the three-day gathering.Vladimir Putin had been hoping "that somehow NATO and the G7 would splinter", President Biden said. "But we haven't and we're not going to." Her Majesty's Canadian Ships Kingston and Summerside set sail for a four-month deployment as part of "deterrence measures in Central and Eastern Europe" launched in 2014 after Moscow annexed Crimea, the Canadian navy said in a statement.
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