Russia launches missile attack on Ukrainian cities - Ukraine's air force

Russia launched several waves of missile strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on the morning of February 7, Ukrainian officials said, with falling debris from the downed weapons cutting off electricity to parts of the capital.

Several waves of blasts rocked Kyiv during the attack, the first in February, with air defence systems engaged in destroying the missiles, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app, according to Reuters.

All of Ukraine was under air raid alert from around 04:00 GMT, with Ukraine's Air Force warning on Telegram of a risk of Russian missile attacks across the country.

Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said Dniprovskyi district was left partially without electricity. Klitschko said falling debris from a downed Russian missile damaged some power lines.

Oleh Synehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region in Ukraine's northeast, said Russian missiles struck non-residential infrastructure in Kharkiv city, the administrative centre of the region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said two people were killed in Kyiv and 10 others were wounded, Ukrainian authorities reported, according to BBC.

A man was also killed in the southern city of Mykolaiv, officials said.

The whole country was put under air alert and attacks were reported as far west as Lviv, near the Polish border.

Ukraine's commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Russia had fired 64 missiles and drones, of which 44 were intercepted. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russian cruise missiles were detected above the western regions of Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk.

In Mykolaiv, one person who was taken to hospital later died of his injuries, the city's mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said.

Others were treated at the scene after the attack, which damaged homes and disrupted gas and water supplies, he added.

Explosions were also heard in Kharkiv, with some damage to infrastructure reported by military authorities.

Ukraine has come under frequent air attack since Russia invaded on February 24, 2022. Russian forces regularly use different types of weapons in their attacks, including drones and missiles.