Kyviv Russia of targeting Kyiv deliberately as residents prepared to celebrate Kyiv Day – the anniversary of the city’s foundation more than 1,500 years ago and a popular holiday before the war. Russia – which launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 – has stepped up its attacks on Kyiv, seeking to overwhelm the capital’s defences. Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said a man died when drone wreckage fell near a petrol station. Should Kyiv put pride aside and go to the negotiating table with Moscow ?

