The New York Times
Russia pummeled Kyiv with drones and missiles overnight on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, including an American, and wounding more than 100, according to the local authorities, in the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital in almost a year.
It was the latest in a series of Russian air assaults that have intensified in recent weeks, dimming already fragile hopes for a cease-fire and coming as world leaders were convening for a Group of 7 summit in Canada that few believe will help bring an end to the war.
“Putin is doing this solely because he can afford to keep waging war. He wants the war to go on,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a statement from the summit, referring to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
