Sun 24 May 2026 at 12:59pmSun 24 May 2026 at 12:59pmHundreds of people take cover inside a local metro station in an attempt to stay safe during the missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Reuters: Alina Smutko)Drones and missiles have hit Ukraine's capital Kyiv shortly after 1am local time on Sunday, killing one person and injuring at least three. Several residential buildings were damaged across the city, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram, adding that debris was on fire at a school premises in the city centre. Kyiv locals take shelter in a metro station with tents and blankets during the Russian missile strike. (Reuters: Alina Smutko)The strike came following a warning from Ukraine's air force saying that Russia might launch a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy had also warned on Saturday that Russia was preparing a strike against Ukraine using the Oreshnik missile, citing intelligence from Ukraine, the US and Europe. Putin boasted about missileRussian President Vladimir Putin had previously boasted about the Oreshnik missile, claiming it is impossible to intercept because of its reported velocity of more than 10 times the speed of sound. Ukraine has previously been hit twice by the Oreshnik missile by Russia: first in November 2024, and in January 2026.Following a Ukrainian strike on a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of ​eastern Ukraine overnight on Saturday, Putin had ordered his military to prepare options for retaliation. A destroyed building of the Starobilsk College of Luhansk Pedagogical University. (Reuters: Pavel Klimov)The head of the Russian-installed administration in the Luhansk region said that 18 people had been killed in the strike, with a further 48 injured and 10 still accounted for. Following the January attack, leaders in Britian, France and Germany described Russia's use of an Oreshnik ballistic missile as "escalatory and unacceptable".Reuters