KYIV, Ukraine — Russia bombarded Kyiv with missiles and drones before dawn Thursday, killing at least 16 people, Ukrainian officials said, in an assault that came soon after President Donald Trump had warned Moscow of new sanctions if such violence persisted.

Rescuers raced to more than two dozen locations around the Ukrainian capital to extinguish fires and search for survivors in the rubble of blasted apartment buildings.

Emergency services and local officials said at least 159 people had also been wounded in the attacks. Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said in a statement that at least one child had been killed.

The assault came shortly after Trump threatened new sanctions on Moscow if President Vladimir Putin of Russia did not put a halt to the bloodshed

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