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Ukraine's air force says Russia launched 315 drones and seven missiles at the country overnight.

It added that the main direction of the attack was Kyiv and that it managed to destroy 284 of the drone and all the missiles.

The figure is a slight drop from the one reported yesterday, when Ukraine said Russia launched 479 drones and 20 missiles in what it called the biggest overnight bombardment of the war so far.

Pictures demonstrate the scale of last night's attack on Kyiv.

Multi-story buildings across the city have been hit by Russian projectiles.

Firefighters can be seen continuing to tackle the smoke billowing from their charred facades.

Russia "relentlessly terrorised" the Ukrainian capital with attack drones through the night, says the head of Kyiv's military district.

"They targeted civilian infrastructure and peaceful residents of the city," Timur Tkachenko says.

Countless loud explosions could be seen shaking the city and lighting up the night AG百家乐在线官网.

Photos and videos posted on Telegram channels showed heavy smoke rising in the darkness across different parts of Kyiv.

The attack sparked fires in residential and non-residential neighbourhoods and open space areas, city officials said.

Air raid alerts in Kyiv and most Ukrainian regions lasted five hours until around 5am, according to military data. 

Russia has lost 998,080 soldiers in combat since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine said in a statement.

While the general staff did not specify, this figure is understood to include killed, wounded, missing and captured.

Further losses include nearly 11,000 tanks, 40,000 drones and almost 30,000 artillery systems, according to the general staff.

Russian news agency Ria Novosti reports that Vladimir Putin's forces shot down 102 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.

Three of the drones were shot down over the Moscow region, the Russian defence ministry reportedly specified. 

Russia has hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa with a "massive" overnight drone, says regional governor Oleh Kiper.

The attack targeted an emergency medical building and a maternity ward, leading to the evacuation of patients, he says.

A 59-year-old man was killed in the attack on a residential area and four people were injured.

Kiper shared footage of smashed hospital windows on Telegram.

Sky News cannot independently verify these battlefield reports.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, but thousands of civilians have been killed, the vast majority of them Ukrainian. 

Underground metro stations in Kyiv were used for shelter during the Russian drone attack overnight.

Russia has launched another prolonged drone attack on Ukraine overnight. Here's the latest:

• One person has died in the southern port of Odesa, where a maternity ward was struck;
• Damage has been reported throughout the capital Kyiv - with at least four people injured;
• Air raid alerts across most Ukrainian regions lasted for about five hours;
• 'You can't break Ukrainians with terror,' Volodymyr ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y's chief of staff says;
• Moscow says its actions are retaliatory.

The secretary general of NATO will call for a 400% increase in funding for air and missile defences, during a speech in London today.

Mark Rutte has met with Sir Keir Starmer and John Healey, the defence secretary, this afternoon.

It comes ahead of a summit in The Hague later this month, when the UK and its NATO allies are expected to agree to pledge to spend 5% of GDP on defence and related areas.

Currently, the government is committed to spend 2.5% GDP on defence from April 2027, with a goal of increasing this to 3% over the next parliament. 

Sky News understands the government will in fact increase defence spending to 3.5% of GDP within a decade to keep the US on side.

'Hope is not a strategy'

Speaking at Chatham House, Rutte will call for a "quantum leap in our collective defence".

He will say that "danger will not disappear even when the war in Ukraine ends".

The call for a 400% increase in air and missile defence will come because of how Russia "delivers terror from above".

Russia has released a video showing what it says are its soldiers being released by Ukrainian forces during the latest prisoner swap with Kyiv.

The Russian defence ministry said the soldiers were under the age of 25 and had boarded a bus at an unknown location in Belarus.

Earlier, Ukraine shared images of its own prisoners being released (see 1.02pm post),