Russia launched missile strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during Wednesday morning's rush hour, killing three people, injuring at least a dozen more and setting blazes across the capital, Ukrainian officials said, Reuters reports.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that two people had been killed in the capital Kyiv and one person in Mykolayiv in the south of the country.
"Another massive attack against our state. Six regions were under the enemy's strike. All our services are now working to cope with the consequences of this terror," Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app.
European Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell who is in Kyiv on a two-day visit to underline the EU's support for Ukraine, posted a picture on X social media platform from a shelter.
"Starting my morning in the shelter as air alarms are sounding across Kyiv," he said.
Kyiv city officials said that at least 14 people were injured in different parts of the capital. Firefighters were extinguishing several large fires. Emergency workers were working to rescue people from a multi-story apartment building in Golosiivskyi district in the southwest of the capital.
Maksym Kozytskyi, governor for the western Lviv region, said an industrial facility was hit in the city of Drogobych.
Oleh Synehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region in Ukraine's northeast, said Russian missiles struck non-residential infrastructure in Kharkiv city, the administrative centre of the region.
