KYIV — The Russian armed forces attacked Kyiv with five ballistic missiles in the early hours of Friday, the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement as images showed significant damage to the capital.
“In a combat air defense shot down all five ballistic missiles that Russian criminals had directed at Kyiv. Unfortunately, fragments of the downed missiles caused damage and destruction in five districts of the capital. There are dead and wounded,” the air force said.
Russia also fired missiles and 60 drones overnight at Ukrainian cities in the Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Chernihiv regions, and in Kherson, where Russians tried to break through Ukrainian defenses around the Dnipro River but failed, Kherson’s military administration said in a statement.