Russia pounded Ukraine's capital with another major missile and drone attack overnight into Thursday, killing at least two people and causing fires across Kyiv a day after the heaviest drone attack so far in the more than three-year war,

The Russian authorities have reported that several Russian regions came under a large-scale drone attack, with explosions heard in Kursk Oblast, the city of Tula in Tula Oblast and Dubna near Moscow,

A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies.

The more drones in a single attack, Kuzan says, the more Ukraine hard-pressed air defence units struggle to shoot them down. This forces Kyiv to fall back on its precious supply of jets and air-to-air missiles to shoot them down.

Russian’s transport minister was found dead hours after being dismissed by President Vladimir Putin, in what officials said was an apparent suicide.