Russia targets Kyiv with missiles and drones, setting buildings ablaze and causing injuries

Multiple explosions heard in Ukraine capital with a hotel and several residential buildings on fire

Russian forces have attacked the Ukrainian capital ⁠Kyiv with drones and missiles, hitting residential ⁠buildings, ⁠triggering ​a fire in a hotel on a central boulevard and injuring at least five.

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, ⁠writing on Telegram, said the hotel roof was on fire. Pictures posted online ⁠showed a fire burning out of control at the ​top of the ‌building on ‌the central Shevchenko Boulevard.