Hospital hit and eight injured as huge drone attack targets Ukraine in Kyiv and Odesa

A large-scale Russian drone onslaught connected Ukraine injured astatine slightest 8 radical and damaged buildings including a paediatric session successful Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

Around 13 buildings were besides deed successful the confederate Odesa portion overnight, and 7 radical were injured.

Of 132 drones launched against the state overnight, Ukraine downed 88 drones, portion 41 were "lost", apt owed to physics warfare, and 1 returned to Russian territory.

In Kyiv, fragments from downed Russian drones struck buildings successful 2 Kyiv districts and injured 1 idiosyncratic precocious connected Thursday, officials said.

Emergency services, successful a station connected the Telegram messaging app, showed pictures of rubble strewn astir wrong and extracurricular a pediatric session successful Kyiv's Dniprovskyi territory connected the eastbound slope of the Dnipro River.

A information defender astatine the installation was taken to hospital. Adjacent buildings besides suffered damage.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said drone fragments had struck an infrastructure tract successful the Sviatoshynskyi territory connected the westbound slope of the river.

Kyiv determination politician Ruslan Kravchenko reported insignificant harm to a backstage residence and different gathering without immoderate casualties.

Russia has stepped up its nightly drone attacks connected Ukrainian cities arsenic it continues to propulsion on the eastbound frontline, making immoderate of its largest monthly territorial gains since 2022.

It launched a record-high fig of 188 drones against the state connected Tuesday earlier staging a large-scale onslaught connected Ukraine's powerfulness grid connected Thursday.

Russian president Vladimir Putin said connected Thursday Moscow had targeted Ukrainian powerfulness infrastructure successful effect to Ukraine's strikes connected Russian territory with US medium-range ATACMS missiles.

US president Joe Biden condemned the Russian onslaught arsenic "outrageous," saying successful a connection that it serves arsenic a "another reminder of the urgency and value of supporting the Ukrainian radical successful their defence against Russian aggression."

Over a cardinal radical mislaid powerfulness successful the contiguous aftermath of the strikes, and millions much had their existing docket of rolling powerfulness cuts intensified.