Kiev had already been attacked hours earlier with an unspecified number of kamikaze drones that were completely destroyed by Ukrainian defenses. Russia has once again targeted the capital of Ukraine tonight.

“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.

A senior local official in Russia says a Ukrainian attack on a town in Russia’s Kursk border region using U.S.

On Friday, a Russian missile strike killed one person and injured several others and damaged six diplomatic missions in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The Russian military justified the attack as a "response" to a Ukrainian attack on a factory on Russian territory on Wednesday using Western missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened further attacks on military installations in Russia, after Ukrainian strikes hit the Russian city of Kazan and a village in the Kursk border region.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has launched several ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing at least one person and injuring nine others

Russia's ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killed at least one person; a Ukrainian attack on Russian border town killed six, officials say.

A Russian missile strike killed at least one person and damaged a historical cathedral, six embassies and other buildings across the Ukrainian capital during the morning rush hour on Friday, Ukrainian officials said.

At least one person was killed and 11 injured in Kyiv early Friday after Russia launched a series of missile attacks across the Ukrainian capital.

Ukraine’s capital faced a Russian missile attack for the first time in almost a month, a day after Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin offered to hold talks with US President-elect Donald Trump.