Russia launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv early on Wednesday, Ukrainian military said.

Ukraine’s air defence systems destroyed all air weapons on their approach to the city, Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military said on the Telegram messaging app.

Mr Popko added that according to preliminary information, Russia used a combination of cruise and ballistic missiles as well as drones in its attack. The size of the attack was not immediately clear.

Witnesses said that several blasts that sounded like air defence systems at work were heard in and around Kyiv. The weapons used could not be independently verified.

It was not immediately known whether there was any damage in the Kyiv region, which surrounds the capital and which is a separate administrative entity.

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