Russia launched a large-scale deadly attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early Tuesday, damaging residential buildings, authorities said, as part of a broad offensive on targets across Ukraine.

Russia launched a major air assault on ​key Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv, killing at least 11 and wounding about 100.

Year-to-date flows exceed averages for each year since Moscow’s troops invaded Ukraine in 2022

Ukrainian drones on Sunday struck an oil depot in southern Russia and a pumping station hundreds of kilometres from the front, Kyiv said, with Russian officials confirming strikes in the areas. Kyiv has stepped up strikes on Moscow's infrastructure in the fifth year of war,

As Russia hammers Ukraine with bombs and warns foreigners to flee its capital, analysts think it may reflect a war "shifting in favor of Ukrainian forces."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more American-made air defense ammunition to counter intensifying Russian ballistic missile attacks,