According to Anton Herashchenko, an assistant to the interior minister, Ukrainian forces shot down an enemy aircraft above Kyiv early Friday, which subsequently fell into a residential structure and caught fire.

It was unknown if the aircraft was manned or if it was a missile. At least eight individuals were hurt when the item collided with an apartment building, according to Kyiv municipal officials.

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, claimed Kyiv had been hit by a missile.

On Twitter, he tweeted, “Horrific Russian missile assaults on Kyiv.” “The last time our capital was assaulted like this was in 1941, when Nazi Germany struck.”

Herashchenko said that a series of explosions heard in Kyiv earlier were the sounds of air defenses shooting at the aircraft. According to a Reuters witness, several explosions could be heard just before daybreak.

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Authorities reported heavy combat in the city of Sumy in the country’s northeast on Friday morning, while a border checkpoint in the southeastern Zaporizhzhya province was targeted by missiles, killing and injuring border guards.