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At least three people have been killed, 18 wounded, and dozens of buildings set on fire in Kyiv, including the seat of the government, following a Russian drone and missile attack in Ukraine's capital, according to officials and local news reports. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was initially quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that the attack early on Sunday killed an infant and a young woman, and sparked fires at several high-rise apartment buildings in the city's west and east. Medics were called to the leafy Darnytskyi district to the east of the Dnipro River, where a four-storey apartment building caught fire from the debris of drones destroyed in the overnight attack, Klitschko added. The Ukrainian news website Kyiv Independent also reported that an elderly woman also died in a shelter in the city's Darnytskyi district following the attack, although the cause of of her death was not immediately clear. The State Emergency Service confirmed at least one fatality in Kyiv and at least 18 injured.

Kyiv, Ukraine – Swarms of Russian kamikaze drones broke through Ukrainian air defence fire early on Tuesday, screeching and shrilling over Kyiv in one of the largest wartime attacks. Oleksandra Yaremchuk, who lives in the Ukrainian capital, said the hours-long sound of two or perhaps three drones above her house felt new and alarming. "This horrible buzz is the sound of death, it makes you feel helpless and panicky," the 38-year-old bank clerk told Al Jazeera, describing her sleepless night in the northern district of Obolon. "This time I heard it in stereo and in Dolby surround," she quipped. Back in 2022, she crisscrossed duct tape over her apartment's windows to avoid being hit by glass shards and spent most of the night in a shaky chair in her hallway.

More than 20 people were injured after Russian strikes hit the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian regional authorities said four people were also injured in a Russian joint drone and artillery attack on localities east of Nikopol city in southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region. Russia's Ministry of Defence reports that its air defence units destroyed 10 Ukrainian drones in an hour. Eight of the drones were intercepted over the border region of Bryansk and two over Russian-annexed Crimea. Yury Slyusar, acting governor of Russia's Rostov region, located on Ukraine's eastern border, said Russian air defence units destroyed Ukrainian drones over five districts.

Russian aerial attacks in eastern and central Ukraine killed at least three people and wounded dozens. Among those killed were a 53-year-old in the Kostiantynivka area and a 54-year-old in the northeastern Kharkiv region. The mayor of Russia's Ryazan region, Sergei Sobyanin, said air defence units intercepted three Ukrainian drones headed for Russia's capital Moscow. No damage or casualties were reported, but specialist emergency crews were deployed to the site. Ukraine ordered the evacuation of some 267 children and their families from 16 settlements along the front line in the east of the country that were under threat from advancing Russian forces.

Russian forces downed 19 Ukrainian drones overnight – 16 over the southern Rostov region and the remainder over the Belgorod and Bryansk regions – Russia's Ministry of Defence said on Sunday. Blasts were heard in Kyiv early on Sunday and smoke was seen rising from above residential buildings after a suspected Russian drone attack on Ukraine's capital. The attack comes after Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram channel that Ukraine's air defence units were trying to repel a Russian air attack on the city, ordering people to stay in shelters. Ukrainian forces are restraining one of Russia's "most powerful offensives" since the start of Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine's top military commander, General Oleksandr Syrskii, has said. Russia troops have taken two more settlements along the Donbas frontline – Kurakhivka and Pershotravneve – Russian news agencies reported on Saturday, citing the country's Defence Ministry.

Ukraine launched a series of drones targeting Moscow and western Russia, according to regional officials. Russian air defence units downed 110 Ukrainian drones over Russia, the Ministry of Defence said, including one over the Moscow region, 43 over the border region of Kursk, and 27 over the southwestern Lipetsk region. Russia's air defence units destroyed at least one drone flying towards the capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the Telegram messaging app, while drone debris sparked several short-lived fires in Lipetsk, the regional governor said on the app. No injuries or significant damage were reported from the attacks. Four firefighters suffered minor shrapnel wounds in a Ukrainian drone attack in an industrial zone in the city of Dzerzhinsk in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, the regional governor said.

That's the unofficial moniker of almost 100 women aged 19 to 64 who are volunteers in part-time military service in air defence units in the suburban community northwest of Kyiv. Each "Bucha witch" trains to handle assault rifles and machineguns to shoot down Russian drones that swarm above their homes several times a month. The weapons fly towards Kyiv to blow up buildings, prompting Ukrainian air defence forces to launch pricey Western-supplied missiles at them. The buzzing swarms repeat the route of Russian ground forces in early 2022 when they occupied most of the Bucha district for 33 days and committed atrocities, now well documented, that captured the world's attention. According to Ukrainian officials and international war crimes monitors, Russian fighters killed hundreds of civilians and robbed, raped and tortured thousands more.