A fierce Russian attack on Kyiv with drones, missiles, and a state of maximum alert.

In a new military escalation, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been put on high alert after being attacked by Russian forces using drones and missiles, resulting in explosions that shook the city center and caused damage to residential buildings. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced via his Telegram account multiple explosions in the capital, confirming the activation of air defenses to counter the attack. He also mentioned that two people were injured in the Dniprovs'kyi district, where emergency services rushed to the scene. Meanwhile, the head of the civil and military administration in Kyiv, Timur Tkachenko, reported two fires in the Sviatoshynskyi and Obolonskyi districts, rocket debris falling in the Obolonskyi area, and drone debris landing on a residential building in the Solomianskyi district. In a related context, Ukrainian authorities confirmed the death of two people and injuries to several others due to a Russian missile attack on the coastal city of Odesa. On the military front, the Russian armed forces announced that they have faced 788 drone and missile attacks since last Tuesday, managing to intercept 776 of them. These attacks come at a critical time as both Ukrainian and Russian sides have begun a prisoner exchange operation, described as the largest since the conflict began over three years ago. The first stage involved the exchange of 390 prisoners from each side, with the process set to continue on Saturday and Sunday. In a diplomatic development, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia would provide Ukraine with a document outlining its conditions for ending the war, opening up new possibilities in the negotiation process between the two parties. The situation in Ukraine continues to escalate with military, diplomatic pressures, complicating the humanitarian and political crisis in the region.