Woman killed as drone hits Kyiv residential building

A 44-year-old woman was killed in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, the city’s military administration said. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a drone hit a nine-storey residential building there, starting a fire on the third to sixth floors and partially destroying the fifth floor.

Klitschko initially reported five people injured in the district and later raised the number to seven. He said all had received medical care at the scene.

Russia’s defence ministry said it had attacked defence and energy facilities with ground-launched weapons and drones. It claimed to have hit the Generator plant in Kyiv, which it said produces drones, as well as sites in the surrounding region used for drone assembly and rocket-fuel components. It has not been established whether the named facilities were hit.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched missiles and 123 drones of various types, including decoys, across the country from the evening of 11 November. In a preliminary report at 08:00 on 12 November, it said 94 drones had been shot down or electronically suppressed.

Earlier this month, Russian attacks disrupted Ukraine’s power grid and injured scores in Kharkiv.

The latest attack followed two days of US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators agreed to a prisoner exchange, Reuters reported, but US mediators said differences remained on major issues, including territory. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were due to travel to Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin.