Russia battered Ukraine's capital Kyiv overnight with one of its biggest ballistic missile barrages of the war, killing at least ⁠one person and wounding 16 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday.

A series of powerful explosions thundered across the darkened city in an attack that involved 41 missiles of various types, the air force said, ravaging buildings across several districts and sparking fires.

Residential buildings, warehouses, a supermarket and a dormitory were among the structures damaged, said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, adding that three people were in a serious condition.

Separately on Sunday, four people were killed and 19 wounded in a strike on a postal depot outside the northeastern city of Kharkiv near the Russian border, the regional governor said.

At one location in western Kyiv, emergency ⁠workers picked through smouldering debris and doused bombed-out apartments.

A resident who identified himself as Vlad ⁠said he had been inside ⁠his apartment when a blast tore off his balcony door, which smashed him in the head.

"My grandmother lives with me, and she can't walk. How could I run away and leave her behind?" ⁠he said.

Closer to the city centre, the strikes damaged a frequently targeted metro station and destroyed an underground pedestrian passage nearby, leaving a pile of rubble.

Russian forces also struck a rehabilitation centre in the neighbouring region of Sumy, said acting Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha. In the regional capital, one person was killed in a guided-bomb attack, according to the interior ⁠ministry. (Reuters)


Edited by Aaron Tam