At least one person has been killed and several wounded in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry says the Albanian, Argentine, North Macedonian, Palestinian, Portuguese and Montenegrin diplomatic missions were also damaged in the attack.
The acting governor of Russia’s Kursk region says at least six people have been killed in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk
Ukrainian officials report missile attacks in the southern city of Kherson, where one person was killed, as well as several other cities and towns.
Russia says its forces hit military targets in Ukraine with long-range high-precision weapons in response to an attack on its Rostov region this week, in which Ukraine used US-made long-range ATACMS missiles and four UK-made Storm Shadow missiles.
This comes a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a marathon news conference, suggested a missile “duel” with the US that would show how Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile could defeat any US missile defence system.
