A new wave of Russian missiles fired at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities resulted in the death of at least one person and the injury of several others.
People gather at the bottom of a hotel, which has been partially destroyed by a Russian strike in the center of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Saturday.Sergei Supinsky /AFP via Getty Images
The sounds of at least 10 loud explosions echoed through the center of Ukraine's capital on Saturday afternoon. Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported that major blasts caused"ruins" in four of the city's neighborhoods. He added that at least one person died, and several more have been hospitalized. Saturday's strikes come as social media reports explosions in four cities in the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula. Official Russian sources didn't corroborate the reports.
"The West lied about peace," Putin said."It was preparing for aggression...and now they are cynically using Ukraine and its people to weaken and split Russia."A woman walks through darkened Kyiv as many street lights remain off due to power shortages in the capital after numerous Russian air strikes on the country's energy infrastructure on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine.