Two people are killed and 54 injured in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital, Vitaliy Klitschko says.

A combined Russian missile and drone attack triggered fires in several districts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Thursday, injuring 21 people, officials said.

Ukrainian authorities say a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack hit Kyiv overnight, killing nine people and injuring another 63, including six children.

At least two people were killed and 54 wounded after a missile attack on Kyiv early Thursday, the city mayor said. Ukrainian authorities issued an alert for a missile attack, and AFP journalists heard explosions across the capital. "Kyiv is being attacked by enemy missiles," the city's military authorities said on Telegram.

A Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring close to 50, Kyiv officials said, in an attack President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said was a "deliberate war crime".

Russia launched a missile attack Thursday on Kyiv, killing at least two and wounding dozens hours after US President Donald Trump lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for refusing

Russian forces launched a mass overnight drone attack on Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Odesa, wounding three people and damaging many apartments, local officials said early on Tuesday.