Russia launched waves of missiles and drones on Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, killing 16 people including two children, and wounding well over 100 others, officials in the Ukrainian capital said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the death toll has risen to 16 following a spate of overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's capital, with two children among the dead.

Ukrainian authorities say a Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital killed at least eleven people including a 6-year-old boy.