Russian armed forces have launched one of the biggest missile strikes on Kyiv, days after Ukraine targeted Moscow with a massive drone attack. Initial reports indicate that the attack wounded at least five people, although the exact number of casualties remains unconfirmed.
"The capital has come under a mass ballistic missile attack," Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, wrote on Telegram.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that five people sustained injuries, one of whom required hospitalisation.
"There are currently reports of at least 4 locations affected by the attack: Shevchenkivsky, Dniprovsky, and Podilsky districts. Fires and damage to residential buildings are preliminarily reported," Tkachenko said.
“As of now, the drone attack is ongoing, but Russia could target the cities with heavy medium-range ballistic missiles in the next few hours,” Tkachenko warned.
Earlier, US authorities had warned Ukraine that Russia could possibly launch one of the biggest attacks of this year in response to the drone attack in eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv had earlier warned it was expecting a major Russian missile attack after its forces launched a drone barrage in the Russian-occupied east, which Moscow said hit a college dormitory and killed at least 18 people.
The US embassy said it had "received information concerning a potentially significant air attack that may occur at any time over the next 24 hours".
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