A Russian missile and drone attack has killed at least 10 people across Ukraine, six in Dnipro and four in the capital Kyiv, marking one of Moscow’s largest assaults in recent months.
Dozens were also injured, including several children, after the overnight air strikes hit apartment blocks, with emergency crews racing to find people feared trapped beneath rubble in Kyiv.
Air raid warnings were in place across most of Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday.
Russia’s defence ministry said the strikes had been a response to previous Ukrainian attacks, saying in a statement that the “strike objectives” had all been achieved.
Moscow last week warned it would launch “systematic strikes” after accusing Kyiv of a deadly attack on a student dormitory in an occupied part of eastern Ukraine. Kyiv said it had hit a Russian military unit.
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Large plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the centre of the capital on Tuesday, where the head of its military administration warned ballistic missiles had been fired and the city’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged residents to stay in shelters.
The buzz of drones could be heard between more than a dozen loud explosions as strikes made impact through the early morning.
