At least seven people were killed and 31 wounded in the capital, Tkachenko said in a statement. A whole section of a residential building was destroyed, and five more were damaged, he said.
“After the [U.S.] strikes on Iran’s nuclear program facilities, there was a lot of uproar from Moscow — the Russian leadership performatively condemned the ‘missile-and-bomb’ actions,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a statement Monday morning.
“Today, Moscow is silent after the Russian army carried out a completely cynical strike using Russian-Iranian Shahed drones and missiles against civilian infrastructure in Kyiv and other cities and communities of ours,” Zelenskyy said.
Just a day before Moscow’s latest attack on Kyiv, the Russian foreign ministry “strongly condemned” the airstrikes that the American military carried out against Iranian nuclear facilities late Saturday, calling them a gross violation of international law.
“The irresponsible decision to subject the territory of a sovereign state to missile and bomb strikes, no matter what arguments are used, is grossly violating international law, the U.N. Charter, and the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council,” the Russian ministry said in a statement Sunday. The U.S. bombing marked “a dangerous escalation … fraught with further undermining of regional and global security,” it added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called the U.S. action against Iran “an unprovoked act of aggression.” Putin make the remarks during a meeting in Moscow with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.