One person was killed and eight others injured in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv that included ballistic missiles, local authorities said.
The attack began at around 1.30am local time on Sunday and continued for several hours, with explosions echoing across the capital.
Russia launched 41 missiles and 125 attack drones across Ukraine overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said most of the missiles had targeted the capital.
The strikes sparked fires in five districts of the city, damaging residential buildings, office and industrial sites, a dormitory and vehicles, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
Viktoria Shejko, 32, was taking shelter in the corridor of her apartment block with her seven children and husband when they heard the loud explosions.
“When the alarm started, we checked that there were ballistics, then went into the corridor. Then it started exploding one missile after another,” she said.
“It’s very difficult psychologically, because lately they’ve been firing ballistic missiles at us very often.
“It used to be once a week or even more rarely, but now if not every day, then every other day.”
Rescue workers pulled four people from a burning private home in the Sviatoshynskyi district, while in the Shevchenkivskyi district they rescued residents from a burning three-storey building.
A fire in a non-residential building was also contained.
One person was later found dead.
Firefighters also responded to blazes in the Solomyanskyi, Desnianskyi and Dnipro districts.
Russia’s defence ministry claimed the attack on Kyiv targeted sites linked to the Ukrainian military — including plants producing Flamingo drones and parts for Neptune guided missiles, as well as a postal terminal “used for storing dual-use goods and assembling drones, robotic systems and electronic warfare equipment”.
Russia has launched several large-scale attacks on Kyiv in recent weeks as Ukraine faces a short
Russia has launched several large-scale attacks on Kyiv in recent weeks as Ukraine faces a shortage of Patriot air defence missiles, which are its most effective means of intercepting Russian ballistic missiles.
Ukraine said it shot down at least 17 ballistic missiles in Sunday’s attack, indicating it may have replenished some of its dwindling stockpile of Patriot interceptor missiles.
During a major Russian attack earlier this month, Ukraine was unable to intercept any ballistic missiles, exposing gaps in its air defence capabilities.
US President Donald Trump has said he is prepared to grant Ukraine licences to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, potentially bolstering Kyiv’s defences against Russian ballistic missile attacks.
However, the details and timeline for implementing the decision remain unclear.
Separately, a strike on two oil tankers at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal off Russia’s Black Sea halted oil loadings at the site, the CPC said on Sunday.
The attack on the Asia and Nissos tankers sparked a fire aboard the Asia, which was extinguished.
The company did not say who was responsible for the attack but added there were no casualties or oil spills, and the tankers remained afloat.
Both Russia and Ukraine have sharply ramped up strikes on ships in the Black and Azov seas over the past week.
Kyiv has for months been targeting Russia’s oil industry, which it says both directly fuels Moscow’s war effort and funds it through export revenues, triggering acute fuel shortages in a country that is one of the world’s top oil producers.
The CPC is a 940-mile (1,510 kilometre) oil pipeline connecting Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea oil deposits with Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, where the oil is loaded and shipped by tanker to world markets.
The pipeline accounts for about 80% of oil-rich Kazakhstan’s crude exports, with the Russian government and Russian state oil firms holding a combined 31% stake in the enterprise.
Meanwhile, Mr Zelensky announced on Sunday that Ukrainian units struck more energy infrastructure in Russian territory.
He said units of Ukraine’s Security Service agency struck three oil depots in the Stavropol region, while a separate army unit hit another fuel-related facility in the same region.
Three Russian tankers were also struck in the Black Sea, he said.
Stavropol governor Vladimir Vladimirov earlier referenced Ukrainian drone attacks sparking fires at “industrial facilities” in two locations within the region.
He did not specify what the facilities were, but said nobody was hurt.
Russian news outlet Astra on Sunday claimed that three oil depots may be burning in Stavropol, based on its analysis of photos and videos sent in by locals after the attack.
Russian air defence systems shot down 140 Ukrainian drones over eight Russian regions, annexed Crimea, and the Black and Azov seas overnight into Sunday, Russia’s defence ministry reported.
It did not say how many were launched or reached their targets.
In Russia’s Kursk region near the Ukrainian border, Ukrainian drones struck four apartment buildings, setting off a fire and injuring one person, according to local governor Alexander Khinshtein.
