Russia launched an intense barrage of ballistic missiles and drones overnight into Saturday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 30 civilians in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, authorities said.The strikes follow a major Russian attack two days earlier that killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 50 others across Ukraine, as Moscow apparently looks to exploit Kyiv's critical shortage of Western-supplied anti-ballistic missile defences. The relentless cycle of attacks dims the potential of reaching a diplomatic end to Russia's more than four-year-old invasion of its neighbour.Russia's Defence Ministry said Saturday it had launched a "massive strike" against "Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities and logistics centres in Kyiv."WATCH | Russia continues to launch deadly attacks:Russia launches deadly missile, drone barrage on UkraineJuly 30|Duration 1:56Russian ballistic missiles and drones struck targets across Ukraine overnight into Thursday, killing at least eight civilians, including children, and wounding more than 50 others, officials said.A five-storey residential building in the city's Solomianskyi district was damaged by falling debris and a fire broke out. Rescue workers evacuated 35 people from the upper floors of the building and two people died, with eight reported injured, including two children, according to Ukraine's state emergency service.In the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, seven people were killed and another 14 injured after the attack caused fires and damage to houses, vehicles, an administrative and non-residential building, the emergency services said.VideoRussian strikes kill 6 in Ukraine, Poland scrambles jets after missile enters airspaceElsewhere, emergency workers extinguished a fire in a non-residential building in the capital's Shevchenkivskyi district. There was no additional information about earlier reports by the district mayor that people were trapped in another residential building. Damage to commercial and residential buildings was reported in two other city districts.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pressed the United States and other Western partners over Ukraine's need for more Patriot anti-ballistic missile defence systems to counter missile attacks from Russia.Smoke rises over the city centre of Kyiv after a Russian missile attack battered the capital early Saturday. (Dan Bashakov/The Associated Press)"Every package of ballistic missile interceptors saves the lives of our people. And every night without them results in more casualties," he wrote on X after the latest attacks. The Ukrainian leader late Friday said he spoke to U.S. Vice-President JD Vance and discussed a meeting with President Donald Trump earlier this week in Washington, which Zelenskyy described as "positive and productive." AudioTrump and Zelensky strike a friendlier tone"The Russian air strikes on our country continue and air defence, specifically interceptors for Patriot systems against ballistic missiles, remains a top priority," Zelenskyy said Friday in a post on Telegram.The Iran war has seen supplies of interceptor missiles previously earmarked for Ukraine diverted to the U.S. military and U.S. allies in the Gulf.At a NATO summit in Ankara in July, Trump said the U.S. would give Ukraine a licence to make Patriot systems, but he appeared to move away from that commitment on Friday during a cabinet meeting at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland, saying he had not yet made a final decision on the matter.'I heard the sound of shattering glass'From a basement shelter where she was taking cover as a second air alarm sounded for another wave, Liudmyla Nakonechna, 64, described how she was woken by loud explosions at 1:30 a.m. local time."I ran into the corridor and was standing there when the bathroom door was blown off its hinges and struck me in the leg," said Nakonechna, whose health is poor after undergoing cancer treatment. "I heard the sound of shattering glass. My balcony was covered in glass and it was completely blown apart, while the windows in my bedroom were also blown out."WATCH | Ukraine has been striking back, hitting 'Russia's Amazon':The facts about Ukraine striking Wildberries, Russia’s AmazonJuly 24|Duration 1:36Ukraine has been hitting warehouses for the online shopping giant Wildberries in Russia. The drone strikes have killed night shift workers and destroyed the merchandise of many sellers. Here are the facts about Wildberries — and why Ukraine is targeting these sites.Nakonechna had not taken cover in a shelter since Russia's full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, but the stress became too much, she said. "It's getting worse by the day," Nakonechna said. "Whereas before there was an attack once every two weeks, or maybe once a week, now it happens practically every day. It is incredibly hard to bear this psychologically."Russia charges Telegram founder with aiding terrorism, assisting Ukraine intelligenceLithuania's foreign minister said the country's embassy in Kyiv was damaged when missiles struck nearby overnight.Meanwhile, in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Moscow-appointed head of the city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said Saturday that a 60-year-old woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone attack on the city. Russian advances have slowed significantly this year With the war now in its fifth year, fighting is raging along about 1,200 kilometres of front line. But Russian advances have slowed by more than half this year, and Ukraine has been launching strikes inside Russia hitting its oil facilities, logistics sites and weapons production.Ukraine was bringing back war to Russia, Zelenskyy said, adding that his troops struck the infrastructure of three oil refineries in the Bashkortostan region and other targets that sustained Moscow's war effort.Moscow and Kyiv both deny targeting civilians in the war launched by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine attack sinks Russian vesselOn Saturday, two Ukrainian drones hit and sank a civilian vessel owned by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom sailing in the Black Sea overnight, the company's head, Alexei Likhachev, said in a statement.WATCH | Ukraine's running low on interceptors:Is Ukraine running out of interceptors? | About ThatJuly 7|Duration 2:52Andrew Chang breaks down why Ukraine’s air defences failed to intercept any of the ballistic missiles Russia fired during its latest attack.