LONDON — At the least 11 folks, together with a pregnant girl, have been injured from ongoing Russian assaults within the Kyiv area early Friday morning, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned in a submit on Telegram.
Sections of sure heating networks within the area had been broken from the assault, and a few buildings had been with out warmth provide, the mayor added.
At the least 15 buildings have been broken in Kyiv so removed from the assaults, the Kyiv Metropolis State Administration mentioned in a submit on Telegram.
In the meantime, earlier this week, Ukrainian forces had been compelled to withdraw from a number of positions within the Zaporizhzhia area, the southeastern entrance, resulting from intense Russian assaults, in keeping with a spokesperson for the military.
Rescuers work on the scene of a constructing broken after a Russian assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.
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Russian forces have launched greater than 400 artillery strikes per day and Ukrainian troops confronted the destruction of defensive fortifications, Southern Protection Forces spokesman Vladyslav Voloshyn informed ABC Information.
The withdrawal affected the areas round Novouspenivske, Nove, Okhotnyche, Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka, in keeping with Voloshyn.
“The state of affairs there stays troublesome, partly due to climate situations that favor the assaults. However we proceed to destroy the occupier, and I thank each one among our items, each warrior concerned in defending Ukraine’s positions,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Tuesday.
Ukraine can also be going through the potential fall of Pokrovsk — a metropolis house to round 60,000 folks on the time of Russia’s 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine — to Russia after 18-month battle of attrition. This may very well be one of the severe defeats of the conflict for Ukraine.
