At least seven people were killed in fresh Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight, authorities said, just hours ahead of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky at a NATO summit in Ankara.
One person was killed in the capital Kyiv, according to mayor Vitali Klitschko, who reported warehouses caught fire after a missile strike.
A first large blast in Kyiv was heard shortly after midnight even before the city's air alert sirens sounded, a rare failure in the system that has spooked residents of the capital.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, a mother and daughter were killed in the southern region of Mykolaiv when Russian forces attacked with guided aerial bombs, regional military head Vitaliy Kim said.
Two people were killed in the northeastern Kharkiv region and another two in the frontline Kherson region in the south, officials said.
