Ukraine-Russia war latest: Seven killed after Putin’s forces launch hundreds of missiles and drones at Kyiv

We have some of the latest pictures showing Russia’s overnight attack on Ukraine, the main target of which appears to be Kyiv.

At least seven people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded after Russia fired 352 drones and 16 missiles, according to Ukraine’s air force.

Vladimir Putin has declared that “all of Ukraine is ours” in some of his most hardline comments on the country since Donald Trump took power.

In recent months, the Russian president has danced around involvement in peace talks – without making any firm commitments – and even suggested he would be prepared to meet with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

But during a Q&A session at an investment event in St Petersburg, Putin was asked about his goal in the protracted war in Ukraine, which is nearing the three-and-a-half-year mark.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is due to visit the United Kingdom today, he has announced.

He said he will discuss with officials Ukraine’s defence as well as “powerful steps to increase pressure on Russia for this war and to put an end to the strikes”.

Zelensky last visited the UK in March, where he met with Sir Keir Starmer and King Charles.

Below, we have a write-up of Russia’s latest strikes across Ukraine.

Russia is playing “bloody roulette” with the lives of Ukrainian civilians, the wife of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said in the wake of a massive missile and drone strike against Kyiv.

Russia launched more than 350 drones and 16 missiles overnight, the main target of which was the Ukrainian capital.

“It is unbearable to see the destroyed houses, but the worst thing is that people have died. Russia plays its bloody roulette daily, shelling our cities, and human lives are always at stake,” she wrote on X.

“My sincere condolences to all those who have lost their loved ones. Ukraine will never get used to terror. What is happening to the world?”

Footage posted by Ukraine’s state emergency services has shown the aftermath of another overnight Russian drone attack on the capital, Kyiv.

So far, at least six people have been reported dead as a result of the strikes.

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko told reporters from the scene that “we very much hope that the death toll will not increase” as rescue workers continued to search the collapsed building for any trapped people.

Dozens of vehicles, some burned out and others mangled by flying debris from the blast, formed a snarl in the courtyard in front of the building, which had collapsed down to the second floor.

Onlookers, some wrapped in blankets, watched tearfully as the cleanup operation took place.

Dozens of volunteers worked to remove broken glass, downed tree branches and other debris.

Russia launched 352 drones and 16 missiles overnight targeting the Ukrainian territory, Ukraine’s air force said this morning.

“The main direction of the attack was the city of Kyiv,” the air force said on the Telegram messaging app.

The death toll from the Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital has climbed to six.

Five people were confirmed dead in the attack on a residential building while 10 others, including a pregnant woman, were rescued from a nearby high-rise that also sustained heavy damage in the blast.

Another person was killed and eight people were injured in the city of Bila Tserkva, around 85km southwest of the capital.

A Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital overnight killed at least four people and injured others, according to Ukraine’s emergency services, as rescue workers and firefighters sought to remove people they believed trapped under debris in a partially collapsed apartment building.

Another person was killed and eight injured in the city of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region, around 85km southwest of the capital.

The strikes came nearly a week after a combined Russian attack on Ukraine last Tuesday killed 28 people in Kyiv, 23 of them in a residential building that collapsed after sustaining a direct hit by a missile. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called that attack one of the biggest bombardments of the war, now in its fourth year.

In the early hours of Monday, drones and missiles hit residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure in numerous districts across Kyiv, emergency services said, with the most severe damage occurring in the Shevchenkivskyi district, where one section of a five-story apartment building collapsed.

Four people were confirmed dead in the attack on the building while 10 others had been rescued, emergency services said, adding they believed others were still trapped beneath the debris.