Russian missile and drone strikes in Ukraine capital kill at least eight and injure dozens

Multiple explosions heard in Kyiv with a hotel and several residential buildings on fire

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight into Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring 34 others.

The intense strikes hit residential ⁠buildings and ⁠triggered ​a fire in a hotel on a central boulevard.