The death toll from an overnight Russian ballistic missile barrage on Kyiv has risen to at least nine people, with 23 others wounded, authorities confirmed on Friday, after earlier strikes killed six in the Kryvyi Rih area.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed a six-storey residential building was struck in the Solomianskyi district, where residents were trapped by falling debris and fires broke out. Fires and destruction were reported across five Kyiv districts, with both residential and industrial buildings damaged, including a car wash blaze in Shevchenkivskyi and parking lot fires in Solomianskyi. Debris also fell on non-residential buildings in the Holosiiv and Darnytsia districts.
Separately, three men were wounded in Russian attacks across the Sumy region, in the cities of Sumy, Trostianets and Vorozhba.