Kiev came under attack by Russian drones on Friday, while Russian defense ministry reported battlefield gains in the past week.
The city's military administration confirmed the drone assault, with explosions reported across the capital as air defense systems worked to counter the attack.
This latest attack coincided with both sides claiming military progress and a prisoner exchange.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his nightly address, accused Russia of launching a large-scale offensive involving over 500 attack drones and various missiles.
In the daily report, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported Ukrainian air forces, missile units, and artillery have targeted Russian personnel, weaponry, military equipment concentrations, and command posts.
Ukrainian forces claimed to have repelled multiple Russian offensives across several fronts, destroying Russian tanks, armored vehicles, artillery systems, and drones.
Russian Defense Ministry on Friday issued statement announcing successful control of five settlements in Kharkov and Donetsk directions.
The Russian forces have repelled waves of Ukrainian attacks and launched several offensives in the Kharkov, Sumy, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk directions over the past week, and struck Ukrainian military targets, it said.
The statement also said that Russian forces successfully intercepted Storm Shadow cruise missiles, HIMARS rockets, Neptune missiles, guided aerial bombs, and fixed-wing drones in the past week.
Also on Friday, Russia and Ukraine conducted another round of prisoner exchange. In accordance with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached on June 2 in Istanbul, another group of Russian servicemen has been returned from the territory controlled by Ukraine, the ministry said in a statement.
It added that a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces prisoners was handed over in exchange. The number of released prisoners from both sides was not provided.
Kiev under drone attack; Russia claims battlefield gains
