Moscow has launched a wave of missile and drone strikes in a revenge attack on Kyiv after a Russian Space Centre was blown up on Saturday.
At least three people were injured in the barrages, which set fire to a large book market and struck several other buildings across the Ukrainian city.
The Telegraph heard at least five explosions just before 3 am, followed by a second salvo just before 10am.
Meanwhile, jet-powered drones swarmed the city throughout the morning, starting from 6am.
Across the country, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske and Kremenchuk also came under fire. In Kryvyi Rih, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, one person died and more than a dozen were injured.
The sweeping strikes followed a Ukrainian attack on a space centre used in the production of Russia’s new satellite internet system on Saturday using Kyiv’s home-grown Flamingo cruise missiles.
The facility, located in Russia’s Samara region some 560 miles from the border, produces Soyuz-2 launch vehicles used to project Rassvet satellites, which Moscow hopes will replace Elon Musk’s Starlink system after its troops were cut off earlier this year.
