The air attack also triggered fires in residential buildings across the city and disrupted the city’s metro transport system.
The assault came just days after Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump “very strongly” that Russia “will have to respond” to Ukraine’s recent devastating drone attacks on airfields.
The attack also caused fires in residential buildings across the city (Photo: Gleb Garanich/Reuters)A man looks from a window of a residential multi-storey building damaged after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Some Kyiv residents sought shelter in metro stations, or in underground car parks.
People take shelter in a metro station during Russian drone and missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine (Photo: Thomas Peter/Reuters)
On Friday in Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the the city’s military administration, said Russia’s drones had approached the city in waves and that air defence units were trying to repel them.
Witnesses told the Reuters news agency they had seen a series of explosions and at least one large fire at one site of a drone impact.Tkachenko said drones had struck the upper floors of a high-rise apartment building and started a fire in Darnytskyi district on the east side of the city, where he said emergency power cuts were possible.
Tkachenko said a fire had also broken out in an apartment building in a western district. He said drone fragments had been spotted in three districts.
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