Russian missiles and drones ripped through apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least 23 people including four children, authorities said, in an attack the United States warned undermines peace efforts.

Russia has rained down aerial strikes on Ukrainian cities despite US President Donald Trump’s push for a ceasefire and even as Moscow talks up the importance of ending the war launched by its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The attack — one of the deadliest on Kyiv — blasted a five-storey crater in one apartment block, ripping the building in two.

Trump “was not happy about this news, but he was also not surprised,” his press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

The European Union mission, a British government cultural building and two media

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