Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Kyiv early Friday, killing six people, leaving gaping holes in apartment buildings and starting fires as the sound of explosions boomed across the city and lit up the night sky.

Friday's attack adds to growing anger and frustration among Kyiv residents as they face winter cold and darkness amid rampant power outages.

A strike that killed six was the latest in a series of aerial assaults, many of which have targeted the power grid in an effort to deprive Ukrainians of energy as winter looms.

KYIV, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday, killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings, and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

Russia and Ukraine’s drone arms race has escalated as Ukraine readies to deploy its AI-powered “drone wall” defense system, the first of its kind, developed by French company Atreyd. The DWS-1 system uses coordinated swarms of up to 200 interceptor drones,

Moscow’s attacks on gas supplies, the main source of warmth for most Ukrainian households, could plunge millions into the cold.