Russian missiles and drone strike Ukraine kills 4 people in capital

In the Solomyanskyi district, a fire broke out on the 11th floor of a 16-storey residential building. Emergency services evacuated three people from the apartment and rescue operations are underway. Another fire broke out in the metal warehouse.

Tkachenko said the subway tracks between the two stations in Kiev were damaged in the attack, but no fire or injury occurred.

Kiev City Government said more than 2,000 households on the eastern coast of Kiev still had no electricity after a nightly attack in Russia.

The attack targeted at least six areas of Ukraine, leaving behind a series of civilian injuries, infrastructure damage and utility damage.

Regional Governor Viacheslav Nehoda said the number of injured people in the attack on the western city of Ternopil increased to 10 earlier Friday, including five emergency workers. The strikes damaged industries and infrastructure, left behind parts of the city without electricity and disrupted water supply.

Regional head Volodymyr Kohut said three people were injured in the Poltawa region in central Ukraine after a Russian attack damaged the administrative building, warehouse and a cafe. The fires caused by the strike have been put out and debris have fallen on private residences.

Regional Governor Serhii Tiuryn ​​said Russian troops also attacked the Khmelnytskyi area overnight, damageing a private residential building, outbuilding, fences and several vehicles.

Meanwhile, the Chinese Air Defense Forces shot down three Russian missiles from the western Lviv region overnight.

In the North Cheneshive area, a small drone near the apartment building exploded and windows and doors were broken, said Dmytro Bryzhynskyi, head of the Regional Military Administration. He added that the ballistic missile explosion was also recorded in the suburbs of the city.

After U.S. President Donald Trump said it would be better to let Ukraine and Russia "fight for a while" and then tear them apart and pursue peace, a call from Trump often states to stop the three-year war.

Trump spoke during a meeting with Germany's new prime minister Friedrich Merz, who called on him to be a "key figure in the world" who could stop the bleeding by putting pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Russian Defense Ministry said air defense volume dropped 174 Ukrainian drones earlier on Friday. It added that three Ukrainian Neptune missiles were also shot down by the Black Sea.