KYIV / MOSCOW - Russia's overnight strike on Kyiv on Thursday killed at least two people and injured 16 others, local authorities said.

The victims, a 68-year-old Kyiv resident and a 22-year-old metro police officer, were killed in the central Podilskyi district, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.

The attack damaged eight of Kyiv's 10 districts, hitting residential buildings, along with medical, educational, commercial and transport infrastructure.

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Mayor Vitali Klitschko said an apartment building caught fire and a clinic in central Kyiv was nearly destroyed. Ten out of the 16 injured were hospitalized, he added.

Around 400 emergency workers and 90 units of equipment have been deployed for ongoing search and rescue operations at the affected sites, officials said.

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Group strike on Ukrainian airfields 

Russian forces carried out a group strike targeting the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

The strike involved the use of long-range, high-precision air-launched weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles and long-range strike drones, the ministry said in a statement.

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The Ukrainian Air Force said earlier in the day that Russia launched another major attack overnight, firing a record 741 aerial weapons, including 728 combat and decoy drones, seven Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles, and six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack caused damage in 10 other regions in northern, central, southern, eastern and western Ukraine.