4 killed as Russian forces hit residential areas around Kyiv

Four people were killed when a 16-story building in Sviatoshynskyi, a residential area of western Kyiv, was shelled early Tuesday morning, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Ukraine’s state emergency services had initially reported two people died in the strike.

A separate hit on another building in the same district caused minor damage, the emergency services said.

At least four buildings in residential areas across the Ukrainian capital — to the east, north and west of the city center — were hit by Russian attacks within the space of an hour Tuesday morning.