KYIV — Russian forces attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles late on Thursday, killing one person, striking buildings and triggering fires, Ukrainian officials said — hours after a wave of daytime strikes killed at least 19 people across the country, including 14 on a crowded station platform in Dnipro.

Source: Reuters

The overnight attack followed Thursday's daytime strikes on Dnipro, Chernihiv and Kremenchuk, which Ukrainian officials said killed 19 people. Read the earlier report: 19 killed in a day of strikes

The capital's military administration said the attack, launched just before 11 p.m. local time, killed one person. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a strike on warehouses caused a fire on the east side of the Dnipro River, which bisects the capital, and that falling debris in a nearby district damaged a building and caused another fire, which was brought under control. Reuters witnesses reported hearing explosions in the city.

In Dnipro, about 496 km (308 miles) southwest of Kyiv, another strike hit a student dormitory and set it ablaze, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said, adding that the day of assaults had cut power to 350,000 households in the city. The Kyiv Independent also reported that strikes on energy infrastructure in and around Dnipro had left up to 350,000 residents without power.

Source: Kyiv Independent via QNC News

1killed in Kyiv's late-evening missile attack
350,000households lost power in Dnipro
19killed in Thursday's daytime strikes
100+ballistic missiles fired at the Kyiv region since October 14, Zelenskyy has said

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine had intelligence about preparations by Russia for new ballistic missile strikes, while Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi said Russia was deliberately hunting civilians on trains, at stations and in residential buildings. The strikes came during a six-day humanitarian truce, brokered with US help, that applies only to the Kherson region around the Russian-held town of Oleshky.

The blackouts are part of an intensified Russian campaign against Ukraine's power plants, substations and gas infrastructure — a fifth winter offensive since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022 — and came as the UN refugee agency warned that strikes on energy infrastructure risk leaving millions without heating as temperatures fall toward minus 20°C. Moscow has consistently denied deliberately targeting civilians, and the Kremlin had not publicly commented on Thursday's Dnipro strike in the initial reporting.