Hundreds of Russian drones and more than a dozen missiles rained down on the Ukrainian capital early on Thursday, killing two people in a second massive air strike on Ukraine in two days as Kyiv seeks critical aid from its partners at a meeting in Rome.

Russia launched an intense aerial assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, marking a second consecutive night of ferocious attacks on the country, as Russia ramps up its bomba...

Russian drones and missiles bore down on Kyiv early on Thursday, with officials reporting two deaths, 16 injured and fires in apartment and non-residential buildings.

A colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has been shot dead in Kyiv. Ukraine's RBC reported that an SBU colonel was the victim of the shooting in the city's Holosiivskyi district. The SBU has confirmed that an employee was shot, RBC said. Ukraine's National Police and the SBU are investigating the murder, but have not named the victim.