KYIV - Russian missiles struck a park symbolizing Kyiv's ties with the western Japanese city of Kyoto on Monday in an attack on the Ukrainian capital that killed one person and injured 10, Ukrainian authorities said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyoto Park was hit along with a university campus and residences. Russian forces used several ballistic missiles in the attack, according to the State Emergency Service.
The park, home to many cherry trees, was created to mark the sister-city relationship Kyiv and Kyoto established in 1971.
Separately, Ukraine and Russia said a localized ceasefire began early Tuesday to allow aid deliveries and civilian evacuations in Oleshky, an isolated town under Russian occupation in Ukraine's southern Kherson region.
The truce, brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump, took effect at 3 a.m.
Fighting continued elsewhere, with Ukraine's air force reporting a Russian ballistic missile attack toward Kyiv shortly after the truce began.
