Joel Gunter
BBC News
Reporting fromKyiv
Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News
Reporting fromLondon
At least nine people were killed and several injured in a Russian missile and drone attack in the Kyiv region in the early hours of Monday morning, the interior minister said.
In a post on social media, Ihor Klymenko said residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure had been hit.
At least six of those killed were in a high-rise building in the capital, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The city’s military administration said a further 33 people had been injured.
In the latest barrage, 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles targeted Ukrainian territory, mostly in the Kyiv area, the Ukrainian air force said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to London on Monday for talks with PM Keir Starmer on UK military support for Ukraine.
One Kyiv resident, Valeriy Mankuta, 33, said he “woke up in the rubble” after his building was hit by what authorities said was a missile. He escaped his apartment by climbing out of the window.
“There were bricks on me, there was something in my mouth. It was total hell,” he told Reuters news agency.
Another resident, Natalia Marshavska, described hearing a drone buzzing above her apartment before it exploded. The force of the blast threw her across the roo
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