SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk had a goal and two assists, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 30 shots for his second shutout of the season, and the Florida Panthers beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Aleksander Barkov and Sam Bennett also scored for the Panthers, who entered the game a point back of Toronto for the top spot in the Atlantic Division. Bobrovsky got his 46th career shutout.
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Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett (9) and Los Angeles Kings left wing Warren Foegele go after the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings center Anze Kopitar (11) and Florida Panthers defenseman Gustav Forsling (42) go after the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) defends against Florida Panthers center Evan Rodrigues (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov (84) passes the puck as Florida Panthers center Carter Verhaeghe (23) defends during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett (9) attempts a shot as Los Angeles Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson (44) defends during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers left wing Matthew Tkachuk (19) lands a punch on Los Angeles Kings defenseman Joel Edmundson (6) during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) stops a shot by Florida Panthers center Sam Reinhart (13) as right wing Adrian Kempe (9) defends during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings center Alex Turcotte (15) aims a shot as Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) and center Evan Rodrigues (17) defend during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett scores a goal against Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett (9) is congratulated after scoring a goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Los Angeles Kings, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
It was the second time in eight days the teams played each other. The Kings beat the Panthers 2-1 in Los Angeles last Wednesday.
Darcy Kuemper made 36 saves for the Kings, who have lost three straight and seven of their last 10 games. Eight of those games have been played on the road.
Kings: Veteran defenseman Drew Doughty played about 24 minutes in his season debut after missing the first 47 games with a broken ankle suffered during the preseason.
Panthers: Tkachuk recorded his seventh multi-assist game of the season. He's up to 31 assists on the season.
Barkov doubled Florida's lead during a 5-on-3 power play 4:43 into the third. That was his 16th point on the man-advantage this season.
Kulikov's assist in the first period came during his 1,000th career game. He's the 13th Panthers player and 402nd skater in NHL history to hit that mark.
Kings play at Tampa Bay on Thursday, and Panthers host Chicago on Saturday.
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Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett (9) and Los Angeles Kings left wing Warren Foegele go after the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings center Anze Kopitar (11) and Florida Panthers defenseman Gustav Forsling (42) go after the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) defends against Florida Panthers center Evan Rodrigues (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov (84) passes the puck as Florida Panthers center Carter Verhaeghe (23) defends during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett (9) attempts a shot as Los Angeles Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson (44) defends during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers left wing Matthew Tkachuk (19) lands a punch on Los Angeles Kings defenseman Joel Edmundson (6) during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) stops a shot by Florida Panthers center Sam Reinhart (13) as right wing Adrian Kempe (9) defends during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Los Angeles Kings center Alex Turcotte (15) aims a shot as Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) and center Evan Rodrigues (17) defend during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett scores a goal against Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper (35) during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Florida Panthers center Sam Bennett (9) is congratulated after scoring a goal during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Los Angeles Kings, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a new ballistic missile that it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable by air defenses.
The intense barrage and the launching of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile came days after Ukraine and its allies reported major progress toward agreeing on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a peace deal is struck to end Russia’s almost 4-year-old invasion.
Months of U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to stop the fighting, however. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has made significant progress on the terms of a possible peace settlement in negotiations with Washington envoys. But Moscow has given no public signal it is willing to budge from its demands.
The attack also coincides with a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington after Russia condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker in the North Atlantic. It comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has signaled he is on board with a hard-hitting sanctions package meant to economically cripple Moscow.
Ukrainian officials said four people were killed and at least 25 wounded in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, during the overnight attack as apartment buildings were struck.
Those killed included an emergency medical aid worker, according to Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko. Four doctors and one police officer sustained injuries while responding to the ongoing attacks, authorities said.
About half of snowy Kyiv’s apartment buildings — nearly 6,000 — were left without heating amid daytime temperatures of around minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 Fahrenheit), Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The water supply was also disrupted.
Municipal services restored power and heating to public facilities, including hospitals and maternity wards, using mobile boiler units, he said
The attack damaged the Qatari Embassy in Kyiv, according to Zelenskyy. He noted that Qatar has played a key role in mediating the exchange of prisoners of war.
He called for a “clear response” from the international community, particularly from the United States, which he said Russia takes seriously.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack was a retaliation to what Moscow said was a Ukrainian drone strike on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence last month. Both Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump have rejected the Russian claim of the attack on Putin’s residence.
Putin has previously said that the Oreshnik streaks to its target at Mach 10, “like a meteorite,” and has claimed it is immune to any missile defense system. Several of them used in a conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack, according to Putin, who has warned the West that Russia could use the Oreshnik next against allies of Kyiv that allow it to strike inside Russia with their longer-range missiles.
Ukrainian intelligence says the missile has six warheads, each carrying six submunitions.
Russia didn’t say where Oreshnik hit, but Russian media and military bloggers said it targeted a huge underground natural gas storage facility in Ukraine’s western Lviv region. Western military aid flows to Ukraine from a big supply hub in Poland just across the border from Lviv.
Ukraine’s Security Service said it identified debris from a Russian Oreshnik missile in the Lviv area. It was fired from Russia’s Kapustin Yar testing range and targeted civilian infrastructure, investigators said.
Russia first used the Oreshnik missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024. Analysts say it affords Russia a new element of psychological warfare, unnerving Ukrainians and intimidating Western countries that supply weaponry to Ukraine.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine would be initiating international action in response to the use of the missile, including an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council and a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council.
“Such a strike close to EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community. We demand strong responses to Russia’s reckless actions,” he said in a post on X.
Pope Leo XIV, speaking at the Vatican on Friday, urged the international community to keep pushing for peace and end the suffering in Ukraine.
“Faced with this tragic situation, the Holy See strongly reiterates the pressing need for an immediate ceasefire, and for dialogue motivated by a sincere search for ways leading to peace,” the pontiff told ambassadors to the Vatican from around the world.
Germany rebuked Russia for what it said was an escalation in the war just as Ukraine and Western countries were trying to find compromises to end it.
“These are symbolic threats intended to instil fear, but they are not effective,” German government spokesperson Steffen Meyer said in Berlin, referring to the Oreshnik’s use. “Russia’s behavior in this regard is too transparent.”
In Kyiv, several districts were hit in the attack, according to Tkachenko, the city's military administration chief. In the Desnyanskyi district a drone crashed onto the roof of a multistory building. At another address in the same district the first two floors of a residential building were damaged.
In Dnipro district, parts of a drone damaged a multistory building and a fire broke out.
Dmytro Karpenko's windows were shattered in the attack on Kyiv. When he saw that his neighbor's house was on fire, he rushed out to help him.
“What Russia is doing, of course, shows that they do not want peace. But people really want peace, people are suffering, people are dying," the 45-year old said.
A previous version of this story corrected the style on Andriy Sadoviy to Andrii Sadovyi.
Vasilisa Stepanenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed to this report.
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
A rescue worker tries to put out a fire at a residential building damaged after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A residential building is seen damaged after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
The dead body of a paramedic lies on the ground in front of a residential building damaged by a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A residential building burns after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A residential building is seen damaged after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Rescue workers put out a fire at a residential building damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Rescue workers put out a fire at a residential building damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A residential building burns after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
