Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, with missiles and drones overnight into Thursday, causing loud explosions and shaking the city for hours.

Residential buildings were damaged in the attacks, and at least 11 people were injured, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The attack affected all of the city’s 10 districts, on both sides of the Dnipro River.

Many residents took shelter at metro stations after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other authorities issued warnings of the attack. Russia has intensified its attacks on Kyiv in recent weeks, even as Ukraine’s own long-range drone campaign against Russian military sites and energy facilities has caused fuel shortages and disrupted supply lines inside Russia.

Klitschko urged residents to remain in shelters, describing an ongoing ‘furious enemy attack’ on the capital. Five people were injured in the Shevchenkivskyi district, and one of the injured, a paramedic, was in extremely critical condition.

In the Desnianskyi district, people were trapped inside a damaged nine-story residential building, and rescuers headed to the scene. In the Holosiivskyi district, a fire broke out on the roof of a multistory building.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said the attack partially destroyed a residential building in the Desnianskyi district, sparked fires near residential buildings at two locations in the Pecherskyi district, and ignited a fire near an administrative building in the Solomianskyi district.

Original reporting: WESH Orlando — read the source article.