Explosions were heard in Kyiv amid an attack by Russian Shahed kamikaze drones, according to the city’s mayor, Vitalii Klitschko, the Kyiv City Military Administration, and RBC-Ukraine's own correspondent.

Russia launched 315 drones at Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was “one of the largest” attacks on the capital Kyiv, with local officials in the southern port city of Odesa also reporting a maternity ward there had been hit.

Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa, officials said.