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Missiles hit Kyiv after Russia vows retaliation

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Missiles hit Kyiv after Russia vows retaliation

Russia struck the Ukrainian capital with a large ballistic missile attack, leaving at least one person killed.

"The capital has come under a mass ballistic missile attack," Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, wrote on Telegram.

"There are currently reports of at least 4 locations affected by the attack: Shevchenkivsky, Dniprovsky and Podilsky districts. Fires and damage to residential buildings are preliminarily reported," Tkachenko said.

Debris was on fire on the premises of a school in ‌the city centre, Kyiv ‌Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.

Russia warns of retaliation On Saturday, President ‌ Volodymyr ​Zelenskyy warned of Russia's attack against Ukraine using the Oreshnik missile, citing intelligence from Ukraine, the US and Europe.

"We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry," including the Oreshnik, a Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, Zelenskyy said in a post on social media.

Ukraine's kill zone, where drones hunt humans To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The warning came after Ukraine had launched a drone barrage in the Russian-occupied east , which Moscow said hit a college dormitory and killed at least 18 people.

However, Ukraine has denied targeting civilians, saying it had hit a Russian drone unit stationed in the Starobilsk area of the Luhansk region.

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