(Reuters) -Russian forces launched a "massive" drone and missile attack on Kyiv early on Friday, officials said, striking buildings and triggering explosions and fires. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people had been injured.

Almost every district in Kyiv was under a 'massive' attack Friday morning, the Ukrainian capital's mayor said, with AFP journalists reporting explosions in the city centre as Russia intensifies its attacks on infrastructure.

Russian forces launched a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv early on Friday, striking residential buildings and triggering explosions and fires in districts throughout the capital, officials said.

Years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but Ukrainians are fighting back hard by trying to keep morale high

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) prevented new attempts by the FSB to carry out contract killings of prominent Ukrainians, bombings in shopping and entertainment centers, and attacks at a Kyiv metro station.

Russia and Ukraine’s drone arms race has escalated as Ukraine readies to deploy its AI-powered “drone wall” defense system, the first of its kind, developed by French company Atreyd. The DWS-1 system uses coordinated swarms of up to 200 interceptor drones,

Russia launched more than 450 drones and 45 missiles at targets across Ukraine overnight Friday, leading to widespread power outages, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Ukraine faces a major corruption scandal involving an alleged $100 million kickback scheme at the state nuclear company Energoatom. President Zelensky

Almost 400 people have been killed in Ukrainian drone strikes across Russia since January, the pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestiareported on Wednesday, citing a senior Foreign Ministry official. That tally was provided by Rodion Miroshnik,