Ukrainians mourned the victims of Thursday's massive Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital which killed at least 23 people and injured dozens.

Flags flew at half-mast in Kyiv on Friday (August 29) in tribute to the victims, people laid flowers and toys at a makeshift memorial next to a residential building part destroyed by a Russian missile.

"I understand that there is a war going on and military targets may be bombed but why would they lie to the whole world saying they only target military objects while in fact they keep attacking civilians deliberately? " said Olha Synytsia, a local resident standing next to the memorial full of children's toys and flowers.

"This is not the first house, not the second, not the third. There have been so many," she said.

Russia pounded Ukraine with deadly missiles and drone strikes early on Thursday (August 28) in a sweeping attack that the U.S. special envoy on Ukraine said undermined President Donald Trump's peace efforts.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the strike, the second-largest attack since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, was Moscow's answer to diplomatic efforts to end its war.

Moscow has regularly denied targeting civilians. Ukrainian officials say scores of civilians have died in Russian strikes on densely populated areas in recent months, and thousands since the start of the war.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

KYIV, UKRAINE (AUGUST 29, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. SITE OF THE ATTACK, CRANES AT SITE

2. VARIOUS OF DESTROYED BUILDING, APARTMENT WITH NO OUTER WALL

3. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LAYING FLOWERS AT A MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL, TOYS, FLOWERS AT MEMORIAL

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) LOCAL RESIDENT, OLGA SYNYTSIA, SAYING:

“This is what these Putin's bastards do. I understand that there is war going on and military targets may be bombed but why would they lie to the whole world saying they only target military objects while in fact they keep attacking civilians deliberately? This is not the first house, not the second, not the third. There have been so many. Let's start thinking, Europeans."

5. SYNYTSIA STANDING NEXT TO MEMORIAL, CRYING

6. VARIOUS OF DESTROYED BUILDING

7. VARIOUS PEOPLE LAYING FLOWERS

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) VENDOR AT A LOCAL MARKET, NATALIA KRIUSHNYCHENKO, SAYING:

"I do not even know what to say, honestly. I work at a local market, we know all the local people, they used to shop with us. I have no words. All those children, we watched them as they grew in front of our eyes. It is so difficult, really tough. I have no words to describe it."

9. TOYS AT THE MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) VENDOR AT A LOCAL MARKET, NATALIA KRIUSHNYCHENKO, SAYING:

"My heart aches, for all Ukraine, all of us. It is so very difficult, very difficult."

11. TOYS AT MEMORIAL

12. WOMAN LAYING FLOWERS

13. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) LOCAL RESIDENT, YULIA VERBINA, 41, SAYING:

"The war must stop. Of course Ukraine wants to stop the war, we are all sick of it. How long must it go on? How much more suffering? So much destruction across all Ukraine, so many dead, so many killed children . There are no words to express this pain, I do not know what else one can say."

14. DAMAGED BUILDING

15. WOMAN WALKING WITH FLOWERS

16. LOCAL RESIDENTS WITH BELONGINGS IN BAGS

17. POLICE TAPE, PEOPLE LOOKING

18, BAGS ON THE GROUND

19. DAMAGED BUILDING

20. RESIDENTS COMING OUT AFTER BEING ALLOWED TO COLLECT BELONGINGS, ESCORTED BY EMERGENCY WORKER

21. VARIOUS FIRE BRIGADES, EMERGENCY WORKERS

22. PEOPLE WALKING WITH BELONGINGS IN BAGS

23. UKRAINIAN FLAG

24, FLAG FLYING AT HALF MAST IN TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS OF ATTACK

25. MOTHER UKRAINE MONUMENT

26. FLAG AT HALF MAST