Russia launches drones, missiles at Ukraine, kills one in Kyiv
Explosions lit up the night sky as the high-pitched whine of drone engines echoed off the walls of the capital's high-rise buildings.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said rescuers and medics were working on sites across four districts of the capital. A subway station in central Kyiv, commercial property, shops, houses and a kindergarten were damaged, city officials said.
Ukraine's air force said that Russia launched 426 drones and 24 missiles overnight across the country, but that only 23 drones hit their targets.
In another tense and sleepless night for Kyiv residents, many rushed to take shelter in underground stations. Explosions were heard across the city as air defence units engaged in repelling the attack.
At the scene of a strike, dazed residents stood amid shattered glass and scorched walls, surveying the damage after a drone hit the lower floors of an apartment building.
In the region of Ivano-Frankivsk, several hundred kilometres west of Kyiv, four people including a child were injured in the overnight attack, according to the state emergencies service.
The mayor of that region's eponymous capital said the attack was the largest on his city since the start of the war in 2022.
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv, said Russia had hit it with 12 strikes overnight. He said a civilian industrial facility had caught fire and windows had been blown out in an apartment building.
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