Ukrainian officials: One person was killed in the Russian attack on Kiev, Kinzhal and Iskander missiles were used

One person was killed in a Russian missile attack on Kiev, and buildings were damaged across the capital of Ukraine, local officials said after explosions were heard today, Reuters reports.

The attack set fires in several buildings and damaged several office buildings, said the head of Kyiv's military administration, Sergej Popko.

Russian forces used eight missiles, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles, to carry out the attack, Popko said.

Mayor Vitalij Klitschko said that at least seven people were injured in the attack, four of whom were taken to the hospital.

Ukrainian air defense is engaged in repelling a missile attack on Kiev, local officials and the air force announced earlier today.

Reuters witnesses said they heard multiple explosions after the air force warned of the attack.

Beta Agency reports that strong explosions resounded this morning in Kiev after a series of warnings about ballistic missiles fired from Russia into Ukraine.

"A ballistic missile is coming from the north," the Ukrainian Air Force warned in a Telegram message.

This has been happening almost three years since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in a war that has already claimed tens of thousands of lives, reports Agence France-Presse.

Thick smoke rises above the capital of Ukraine.

The attack comes a day after the annual press conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who rejected any truce.

The Ukrainian authorities announced that rockets also hit the city of Kherson in the south of the country, where one person was killed and six were wounded. They stated that there are also attacks on other towns and villages.

Russian forces are advancing in the Kharkiv region, which borders Russia, with the aim of capturing the city of Kupyansk, which they had captured in the first year of the war.

That city was occupied by the Russian army at the beginning of the invasion in February 2022, and then Ukrainian forces recaptured it in a lightning counter-offensive in September of the same year.

The Oskil River passes through Kupyansk, an important railway junction in that sector, which practically became the front line between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

The Russian army has been advancing faster in recent months in eastern Ukraine and increasing the number of attacks on that zone, which it has been trying to retake for months in order to cross the Oskil River again.