Rescue workers clear the rubble of a house heavily damaged after a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka)<\/small><\/p>\n
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack<\/a><\/span> on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children.<\/p>\n Emergency workers finished digging through the building\u2019s rubble after more than a day, Zelenskyy said on X.<\/p>\n The cruise missile hit the nine-story corner block during what the Ukrainian air force said was Russia\u2019s biggest barrage of the country since its all-out invasion<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n The assault mostly targeted the Ukrainian capital, where 48 people were wounded, including two children, Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n Russia hammered Ukraine with large-scale aerial attacks in the days following a May 9-11 ceasefire<\/a><\/span> that U.S. President Donald Trump said he asked Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to observe. Fighting went on<\/a><\/span> over those 72 hours, although reportedly on a lesser scale.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s attacks ran counter to recent suggestions from Trump and Putin that the war, now in its fifth year, is close to ending.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said Thursday that Moscow had launched more than 1,560 drones against Ukrainian population centers since Wednesday. In all, some 180 sites across the country were damaged, including more than 50 residential buildings, he said.<\/p>\n Previously, the biggest Russian drone attack was from the evening of March 23 to the evening of March 24 when Moscow\u2019s forces fired nearly 1,000 drones and missiles at Ukraine.<\/p>\n