Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin unleashes ‘night of horror’ on Kyiv in response to strikes on energy plants

At least 13 people have been killed as Russia launched a major aerial attack on Kyiv overnight, with several residential buildings set ablaze across the Ukrainian capital. Another 86 people were injured in the Russian drone and missile barrage. A hotel in Kyiv’s central boulevard was also on fire, officials said. Moscow said it had hit military and energy facilities around Kyiv, as well as military airports in several other regions, in retaliation for Ukraine's attack on civil infrastructure. The attack comes hours after president Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia was planning a massive night-time attack and said he was cutting short his visit to Dublin for the start of Ireland's six-month term in the rotating presidency of the EU. Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi had also said Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to find ways in which Russia can launch new offensive operations on Ukraine to capture Kyiv. These include Russian offensives launched from Belarusian territory to capture the Ukrainian capital and its surrounding areas, Syrskyi said.Ukraine, Putin or call centre fraud: The theories behind assassination attempt on Ukrainian tycoon in Monaco Vadym Iermolaiev was returning to his apartment in Monaco on a warm summer night last Monday with a woman and child when the bomb exploded. Within seconds, the Ukrainian oligarch and the woman and child were lying covered in blood on the floor outside the building on the Rue Révérend-Père-Louis-Frolla. The suspect, who dropped a suspected parcel bomb in the lobby, had already fled the scene. A manhunt to locate him is ongoing, while Iermolaiev and the other two victims are being treated for serious injuries at the Pasteur Hospital in Nice. Two days since the attack, the case remains shrouded in mystery with sources offering various theories for why Iermolaiev, one of Ukraine’s richest men, was targeted.