KYIV, Ukraine, June 17, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukraine on Tuesday slammed the lack of an "adequate reaction" from the world to Russia's deadly strikes on its soil, after an attack on Kyiv killed at least 14 people.

"This is how Russia fights -- it kills civilians in ordinary homes, deliberately," Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said in a social media post, after one of the deadliest strikes on the Ukrainian capital in the more than three-year-old war.

"This is how autocracies fight.... A nuclear power can simply kill civilians in homes, refuse to cease fire, and not receive the necessary reaction from the civilised world. Why? And how many more of our people and children must die?"