Three people were killed and three others were injured in an attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Saturday, according to officials, in a move Russia said was in retaliation for Ukraine using US-made ATACMS missiles.

At least three people were killed in the assault on the capital, and at least 10 were wounded in a separate strike in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian air defences downed 33 of 50 drones launched by Russia overnight, the air force said on Friday. It said 9 drones were "lost", in reference to Ukraine's use of electronic warfare to redirect Russian drones,

Russia’s military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date.

The barrage appeared to be one of the largest recent assaults in Ukraine’s campaign to damage Russia’s war machine on its home territory.

A Ukrainian drone attack ignited a fire at an industrial site late Friday in Russia's Kaluga region, about 170 kilometers from the shared border. "As a result of a drone attack in Lyudinovo, a fire broke out on the territory of an industrial enterprise,

Russia attacked Ukraine's capital with a barrage of drones and missiles Saturday, leaving at least three people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.

Russia launched a combined strike on Ukraine during the night of January 18. The occupiers fired four rockets and 39 drones, according to the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram. Russia launched drone strikes from three directions: Millerovo,