Ukraine says three killed in'massive' Russian aerial attack At least three people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a massive overnight Russian aerial attack on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky says. He says regions across the country were targeted as part of a deliberate strategy to intimidate civilians and destroy our infrastructure, with one direct missile hit reported on a residential building. Ukraine's air force says Moscow launched 619 drones and missiles. Russia's defence ministry says its massive strike used precision weapons and targeted military-industrial facilities. Separately, Russia says four people were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Saratov region.

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Four killed in Kyiv in new Russian aerial attack 12 minutes agoShareSaveJaroslav LukivBBC NewsShareSaveUkraine's emergencies service DSNSRescuers from Ukraine's emergencies service DSNS tackle fire in a residential building destroyed in the latest Russian attack on Kyiv At least four people have been killed in an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv, the interior minister says. In a post on social media, Ihor Klymenko says residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure were hit. "An entire section of a residential high-rise building was destroyed" in the worst-hit Shevchenkivskyi district, he says, adding that some people are trapped under the rubble. In the Kyiv region, a woman was killed and another two people injured in the Russian aerial attack, regional head Mykola Kalashnyk says. The Russian military has not commented on the issue.

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.

At least four people were killed in Russia's overnight bombing of Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on the Telegram messaging app. Kharkiv lies about 30km (18 miles) from the Russian border and has been repeatedly targeted by Russian aerial attacks. An earlier attack on Kharkiv injured six people and destroyed much of the Derzhprom building, one of the most celebrated landmarks in the city, dating from the 1920s. Two people were injured and a residential building caught fire in Solomianskyi, a district in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, after a Russian drone attack, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. One person was killed and 11 wounded after a Russian missile struck a three-storey residential building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown.