Kyiv hit by ‘massive’ Russian missile, drone attack, officials say, with 19 killed

(LONDON) — Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine came under a major combined missile and drone attack overnight into Thursday, Ukrainian officials said, with at least 19 people — four of them children — killed in the capital.

“Kyiv is under massive attack,” Timur Tkachenko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said in a post on Telegram. At least 63 people were injured across the city, including 11 children, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 598 drones and 31 missiles into the country overnight, of which 563 drones and 26 missiles were shot down or suppressed. Impacts were reported across 13 locations, the air force said, with falling debris reported in 26 locations.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post to Telegram that it was “a terrible n