Russia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the early hours of Friday, killing at least six people, Ukrainian officials said, as powerful explosions reverberated across the country.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian truck drivers who transported what would become platforms for Ukraine's drone attack on Russian warplanes did so unwittingly.

Russia launched a massive drone and missile barrage across Ukraine in a major retaliatory strike, days after Kyiv damaged key Russian bombers.

Russia launched a drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital and other parts of the country on Friday, officials say.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine has a clear path to victory. The Ukrainian drone attack last week and the Russian air raids on Friday don't change that.

Ukraine said its “Operation Spiderweb” attacked Russian warplanes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing drones that each cost under $1,000 and were launched from wooden containers carried on trucks.

Ukraine’s shock drone strike on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet this week has generals and analysts taking a new look at threats to high-value United States aircraft at bases in the homeland and abroad – and the situation is worrisome.

Satellite imagery of a Russian air base taken shortly after Ukraine carried out a drone attack shows several strategic bombers were destroyed.

At least five people were killed, including a child, and more than two dozen injured after Russian forces launched more than 100 drones, guided bombs and missiles at regions all across Ukraine overnight.

Ukraine on June 1 launched 117 individually-operated drones at four airbases across Russia, officials said, in an operation codenamed "Spiderweb".

Russia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the early hours of Friday, killing four people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as powerful explosions reverberated across the country.