Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv early yesterday, killing eight people and wounding dozens in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian forces used 430 drones and 18 missiles, making the attack one of the biggest on the capital so far. Kyiv was responding with long-range strikes, he said, urging allies to toughen sanctions on Russia.

The air force said most of the drones and missiles were shot down, but officials said falling debris and fires damaged high-rise apartments, a school, a medical facility and administrative buildings across nine districts in the city of about 3 million.

Zelensky said the Azerbaijani Embassy was hit by debris from an Iskander missile. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that at least 29 people were injured across the city, including two children, and a pregnant woman was among nine people treated in hospital.

Zelensky also said yesterday that his troops had used long-range Ukrainian "Long Neptune" cruise missiles on targets in Russia overnight, adding that such strikes were getting more successful all the time.

"Overnight our warriors successfully used 'Long Neptunes' against designated targets on Russian territory – and this is our entirely just response to Russia's ongoing terror," Zelensky wrote on X.

Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a key outlet for Russian commodity shipments, suspended oil exports yesterday after what authorities said was a major Ukrainian drone attack, two industry sources told Reuters.

The attack, one of the biggest on Russian oil-exporting infrastructure in recent months, comes after Ukraine in August stepped up strikes on Russian oil refineries in an attempt to degrade Moscow's ability to finance its war.

Long-range Ukrainian air and sea drone strikes have repeatedly disrupted Russian oil infrastructure this year, targeting Baltic and Black Sea ports, a trunk pipeline system, and a number of oil refineries.

Russian officials said yesterday's attack had also damaged a docked ship, apartment buildings and an oil depot in Novorossiysk, injuring three of the vessel's crew members.