During the overnight assault, Russian forces unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles on Kyiv, resulting in the deaths of 18 civilians.
Kyiv’s mayor characterized the strike as the ‘most massive attack’ ever endured by the Ukrainian capital.
Hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of an imminent Russian offensive, multiple neighborhoods were evacuated as explosions shattered buildings across the city.
BBC Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford is on the ground at a nine‑story apartment block in Kyiv that was utterly destroyed in the strike.
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