Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko was initially quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that the attack early on Sunday killed an infant and a young woman, and sparked fires at several high-rise apartment buildings in the city\u2019s west and east.<\/p>\n
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Medics were called to the leafy Darnytskyi district to the east of the Dnipro River, where a four-storey apartment building caught fire from the debris of drones destroyed in the overnight attack, Klitschko added.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian news website Kyiv Independent also reported that an elderly woman also died in a shelter in the city\u2019s Darnytskyi district following the attack, although the cause of of her death was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n
The State Emergency Service confirmed at least one fatality in Kyiv and at least 18 injured.<\/p>\n
Reuters agency also quoted witnesses and the Ukrainian military as saying that a fire has broken out at an administrative building in Kyiv\u2019s Pecherskyi district following the drone attack, which also knocked out power in the city.<\/p>\n
Russian attacks on Ukraine have increased in recent days even as US President Donald Trump stepped up diplomacy to end the three-and-a-half-year war, although those efforts have not yet been successful.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Klitschko posted on the Telegram messaging app that a pregnant woman and two other injured people had been hospitalised.<\/p>\n
Drone debris also caused fires atop a 16-storey and two nine-storey buildings in the Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv\u2019s west, he said.<\/p>\n
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A police officer stands near the site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian drone strike early on Sunday [Thomas Peter\/Reuters]<\/p>\n
Reuters witnesses heard a series of explosions shaking the city in what sounded like air defence units in operation.<\/p>\n
Timur Tkachenko, the head of the military administration of the capital, said on Telegram that Russia was \u201cdeliberately and consciously striking civilian targets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moscow did not immediately issue any comment on the attacks.<\/p>\n
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the strikes, but thousands have died in the war Russia launched\u00a0with a full-scale invasion of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0in February 2022.<\/p>\n
Early on Sunday, most of Ukraine was under air raid alerts after Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n
Tens of explosions shook the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, cutting power to parts of it, Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi said on Telegram.<\/p>\n
Russian strikes on Kryvyi Rih in the same region targeted transport and urban infrastructure, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the military administration, said on Telegram, but with no injuries reported.<\/p>\n
In the southern city of Odesa, civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged, with fires breaking out in several apartment blocks, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.<\/p>\n
Earlier, a separate Russian strike in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region killed one person and wounded several others, according to regional military governor Oleg Grygorov on Telegram.<\/p>\n