A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv early on Saturday killed at least nine people and wounded 23 others, Ukraine's emergency services said, with fires reported in five districts of the capital.
The overnight barrage came as Donald Trump appeared to row back on a commitment to allow Ukraine to manufacture its own Patriot air defence interceptors. "We have not agreed to that. We're talking about it, but it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology," Trump told reporters at Camp David.
In Kyiv, the Darnytsky district suffered the worst losses, with seven people killed and 14 wounded, while two people died and eight were injured in Solomiansky district, where a five-storey residential building was hit. "Everything was smashed, the windows, everything," said 75-year-old resident Kateryna Kravchenko. The emergency service said 105 people had been rescued.
Separately, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the Trump administration to help secure Elon Musk's permission to use Starlink satellite internet for guiding strikes inside Russia. The request was made during an Oval Office meeting this week, but Trump did not commit.
In other developments, thousands rallied in Kyiv demanding the reinstatement of dismissed defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, while Russia's grain lobby warned that Ukrainian drone attacks on Black Sea shipping could disrupt grain exports and fuel global food insecurity. The founder of Russian online retailer Wildberries also accused Ukraine of "acts of terrorism" over drone attacks on its facilities.
