One person has been killed and 26 others were injured after a night of intensive Russian strikes on almost every district in Kyiv, officials say. A pall of acrid smoke hung over the Ukrainian capital on Friday morning following hours of nightfall punctuated by the staccato of air defence guns,

Russian strikes hit more than a dozen locations across Ukraine’s capital Kyiv overnight into Friday, including residential areas, a local official said, hours after US President Donald Trump said he had made “no progress” towards a ceasefire deal during a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

His statement comes after Kyiv endured one of its most intense nights since the start of the full-scale invasion, as Russia launched a massive combined drone and missile assault on the city. At least 23 people were injured in the attack,