Russia attacked Ukraine's capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 27, a day before talks between Ukrainian and U.S. leaders.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people in the capital. For only the second time in the nearly 4-year-old war,

An intense wave of Russian drone attacks has left hundreds of thousands of households in the Kyiv region without power, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, as temperatures fall well below freezing.

Russia hit Kyiv with its hypersonic Oreshnik missile, only the second time it has used the nuclear-capable weapon in the war with Ukraine. The strike is believed to be a strong message to the West including the US amid Trump's military aggression across the world.

The head of Kyiv's military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said the capital came under a short but intense attack from missiles.

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s capital on Friday using new ballistic missile that it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable by air defences. The strikes coincide with a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington and send a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies.