Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine kill six and injure more than 20

Russian missiles and drones targeted residential and civilian areas in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, resulting in at least eight casualties, according to Ukrainian officials. The attacks occurred the morning after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on X that Russia was preparing a large-scale assault.

In Pryluky, a northern city in the Chernihiv region, a missile hit a high-rise apartment building, causing multiple fatalities and injuries. Viacheslav Chaus, head of the regional military administration, reported that four people were killed and 20 injured, including three children, with rubble removal efforts underway. Chaus shared photos showing a partially collapsed entrance of the affected building.

In Kyiv, ballistic missiles struck the capital, with explosions heard throughout the city center around 3 a.m., resulting in the deaths of two individuals. A rocket also struck a nonresidential building in Kyiv's Podilskyi district, triggering a fire.