Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday, November 7 local time, with debris damaging a residential building and a kindergarten and two people injured in the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko and the city military administration said, Reuters reported.

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“Explosions in the Kyiv suburbs. The enemy is hitting infrastructure with ballistic missiles,” Klitschko wrote on Telegram. He said debris struck a five-storey apartment building in a western district of the capital and the facade of another residential building was also damaged. The Kyiv City Military Administration, also writing on Telegram, said two people were injured and receiving medical care, and that a building housing a kindergarten was damaged; officials continued to warn residents of the potential for more strikes hours after the attack.

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Two waves through the night

The first wave struck shortly before 11 p.m. local time on Friday, November 6, when the Ukrainian Air Force reported at least six ballistic missiles launched toward Kyiv within a few minutes and explosions followed across the capital, the Kyiv Independent reported. An all-clear came roughly 30 minutes later, but another air alert began shortly before midnight, and a fresh series of blasts was heard shortly after 1 a.m. on Saturday as the Air Force warned ballistic missiles were again approaching the capital.

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Damage inside the city was reported in the Solomianskyi district: Klitschko said a five-storey residential building was damaged and windows were broken in another five-storey building, the city administration reported a fire at a non-residential building there, and a kindergarten in the district was also damaged, according to the administration and Mezha's reporting. Officials had not released a full damage inventory by early Saturday.

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Outside the city, Kyiv Oblast Governor Tymur Tkachenko said a Russian jet-powered drone struck a home in the Brovary district, causing a fire and injuring one man; emergency responders pulled him from the damaged building and he was hospitalised with burns and shrapnel wounds. That was a separate regional incident, not one of the missile impacts inside Kyiv.

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The warning Zelenskiy gave hours earlier — and the talks three days away

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said in his nightly video address, hours before the attack, that Russia was preparing new attacks on energy targets, bridges and other infrastructure, Reuters reported. The strikes occurred three days before US-led talks including Ukrainian and Russian negotiators open in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11 seeking a resolution to the four-and-a-half-year-old war; the last such talks took place in February.

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Russia's Defence Ministry, in a separate account issued on November 6, said its forces had struck an energy-storage facility in Bila Tserkva, a different city in Kyiv Oblast, and a dry-cargo vessel in Odesa, describing the facility as supplying Ukraine's defence industry and the ship as carrying military or dual-use goods. Those are Russian military claims, not independently confirmed, and the ministry's post did not address the later missile attack on Kyiv city itself.

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What happens next: Kyiv officials were still warning of further strikes as Saturday began, and the full extent of the damage had not been established. The attack lands in the middle of Ukraine's worsening power crisis — Russian strikes have plunged districts of the capital into darkness in recent days — and immediately before the Abu Dhabi talks, where the pattern of strikes on energy and infrastructure is expected to be a central Ukrainian charge against Moscow.

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Hours before the missiles fell, President Zelenskiy had warned that Russia was planning new strikes on energy targets and Dnipro bridges. Read: Zelenskiy warns of new Russian strikes on energy and bridges