Russia Launches Missile Attack on Kyiv, Killing One and Injuring Four

One person has been killed and four injured in a Russian missile attack on Ukraine's capital overnight. Kyiv's mayor said a nine-year-old girl was among the injured in the strikes which took place early on Wednesday. The Ukrainian military said it had shot down six of seven ballistic missiles and 71 drones launched by Russia, which sparked several fires throughout the city. It comes after President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested Ukraine would be prepared to swap land with Russia in potential peace negotiations. The strikes had caused damage in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi, Podilskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Obolonskyi districts, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

A predawn Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital killed at least one civilian and injured four others on Wednesday, sparking several fires in the city of three million people, Ukrainian officials said. Residents woke to a series of powerful explosions that shook the capital around 0230 GMT as local officials said air defences were engaging the largest ballistic missile salvo to target Kyiv in weeks. Nearly three years since Russia launched its invasion, the attack comes amid a concerted peace push by U.S. President Donald Trump who has said his team is in touch with both Kyiv and Moscow and that he wants a rapid end to the bloodshed. A column of smoke could be seen rising above the city in the aftermath of the attack as an emergency services crew sifted through rubble next to the damaged buildings.

A pre-dawn Russian missile salvo on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv threatens the prospect of peace talks, Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The strikes on Wednesday killed one and injured four, including a nine-year-old girl, and sparked several fires in the city of three million, Ukrainian officials said. Prospects for renewed peace negotiations to end the war that Russia launched on Ukraine almost three years ago have increased after Donald Trump, the US president, said he had been in contact with Kyiv and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. Mr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Kyiv would soon hold talks with US officials. But the Wednesday morning strike prompted Kyiv to warn that such attacks put the prospect of peace in jeopardy.