MILWAUKEE (AP) — Christian Yelich and Andrew Vaughn homered and the Milwaukee Brewers extended their winning streak to five games with an 8-3 victory over the Washington Nationals on Friday night.
The Brewers scored six runs in the third, opening the inning with six consecutive hits off Mitchell Parker (5-10). The string of hits was capped by Yelich’s two-run homer. Caleb Durbin doubled on a misplayed fly to right to open the inning. Joey Ortiz and Sal Frelick singled to tie it 1-all. William Contreras followed with an RBI double and Jackson Chourio added a two-run single. Yelich then sent a 1-1 pitch 405 feet to right for his team-leading 19th homer.
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Milwaukee Brewers' Quinn Priester pitches during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Washington Nationals' Brady House, left, throws a runner out over Nationals' Mitchell Parker as he ducks during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Washington Nationals' Riley Adams hits a solo home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers' Christian Yelich hits a two-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers' Andrew Vaughn rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Vaughn’s solo homer, his seventh, put the Brewers up 8-3 in the seventh.
Quinn Priester (7-2) allowed two runs over the final six innings for the win.
Washington has lost three of four under interim manager Miguel Cairo, who took over after Dave Martinez was fired.
The Nationals took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third off opener DL Hall when Riley Adams walked and C.J. Abrams followed with a triple to center.
Contreras doubled in a run in the fourth to make it 7-1.
Brady House’s RBI double in the sixth cut the lead to 7-2. Adams opened the seventh with his fourth homer to make it 7-3.
After his RBI triple in the third and with the Nationals up 1-0, Abrams was thrown out at home trying to score on a bouncer to short.
Vaughn, recalled Monday from Triple-A Nashville, became the first player in Brewers history to record an RBI in each of his first four games with the team. Vaughn was acquired in mid-June from the White Sox in exchange for right-hander Aaron Civale.
RHP Brandon Woodruff (1-0, 1.50) makes his second start for the Brewers since coming off the IL. LHP Shinnosuke Ogasawara (0-1, 13.50) starts for the Nationals.
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Milwaukee Brewers' Quinn Priester pitches during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Washington Nationals' Brady House, left, throws a runner out over Nationals' Mitchell Parker as he ducks during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Washington Nationals' Riley Adams hits a solo home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers' Christian Yelich hits a two-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
Milwaukee Brewers' Andrew Vaughn rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
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)
