Russia-Ukraine war live: house on fire in Kyiv as capital comes under third attack in 24 hours

More on the fire in the multi-storey building – local authorities have confirmed that the fire is in a residential building and was caused by falling debris.

“As a result of falling debris in a multi-story residential building, windows were broken and doors were torn out in several apartments. Information about the destruction and victims is being clarified,” the Kyiv Regional City Administration said on Telegram.

A fire has broken out in a multi-storey building in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, mayor Vitalii Klitschko has just said on Telegram:

“Fire in a multi-story building in Holosiivskyi district. Medics and rescuers are working on the spot,” Klitschko wrote.

Local news outlet Euromaidan has posted these photos (which have not been independently verified by the Guardian) of the house fire in Kyiv caused by falling missile debris:

Britain’s ambassador to Ukraine, Dame Melinda Simmons, described the feelong of being in the capital amid the third strike in 24 hours.

“Jolted awake by noise in the sky. Problem with many broken nights is you can sleep through the siren. There’s no sleeping through an air raid though,” Simmons wrote on Twitter.

Journalist Liz Cookman says there is “smoke rising in the air” amid what Kyiv’s mayor called a “massive” attack.

Three cars are on fire in Pechersk, Kyiv, because of falling debris, the city’s mayor, Vitalii Klitschko, said on Telegram a few minutes ago.

We’re seeing reports of more explosions heard in Kyiv – it is unclear whether these are as the result of air defences working.

The reports of explosions come as Kyiv authorities warned more Shahed drones were headed in the direction of the capital.

We’ll have more shortly.

Air alarms are still sounding in Kyiv, as Russia launches the third attack on Ukraine’s capital in 24 hours.

Falling debris has injured one person and caused a fire in a private house, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said a few minutes ago.

A 27-year-old woman was wounded in Holosiivskyi District, he said, and the house on fire is in Darnytskyi District.

Welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. This is Helen Sullivan with the latest.

Russia is carrying out another round of strikes on Kyiv early on Tuesday morning, hours after day and nighttime attacks on Ukraine’s capital on Monday.

Air defence systems were working in Kyiv, the city’s military administration said early on Tuesday, after widespread reports of explosions.

We’ll have more from Kyiv shortly.

Here are the other key recent developments:

• Eleven Russian missiles aimed at Kyiv were shot down by the Ukrainian air defence on Monday morning. One person was hospitalised as a result of the attacks. The local authority reported that the roof of a two-story building caught fire in the district as a result of falling debris, but that the fire was contained.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that using US-provided Patriot anti-missile systems ensured a 100% interception rate and would play a role in pushing forward against Russia’s invasion. “When Patriots in the hands of Ukrainians ensure a 100% interception rate of any Russian missile, terror will be defeated,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

• Any peace settlement acceptable to Ukraine would include a demilitarised zone extending between 100km and 120km into Russia, the adviser to the head of the office of Ukraine’s president, Mykhailo Podolyak, has suggested. The key topic of the postwar settlement should be the establishment of safeguards to prevent a recurrence of aggression in the future, he said.

• US president Joe Biden said that in a call on Monday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan repeated Ankara’s desire to buy F-16 fighter jets from the United States, while Biden responded that Washington was keen to see Ankara drop its objection to Sweden’s joining Nato. The exchange took place when Biden called Erdogan to congratulate him on his victory in Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday.

• Two people were killed and eight were wounded in a Russian attack on the city of Toretsk on Monday morning, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, said. Kyrylenko said Russian forces had used high-explosive aerial bombs in the attack at about 11:30 am local time which damaged a gas station and a multi-storey building in the city.

• In an edited video released by the Ukrainian president’s office of Graham’s meeting with Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Friday, Graham was shown saying “the Russians are dying” and then saying US support was the “best money we’ve ever spent”. Russia said Graham should say publicly if he believes his words were taken out of context in the video edit.

• Polish president, Andrzej Duda, said that he would sign a bill to allow a panel to investigate whether the opposition party Civic Platform (PO) allowed the country to be unduly influenced by Russia and as a result become too dependent on its fuel when it was in power. The PO party rejects the claims and says the law is designed to destroy support for the party in the lead up to the elections being held at the end of the year.

• The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said that her government planned to increase spending on military aid to Ukraine by $2.6bn over this year and next year. Earlier this year, Denmark set up a $1b fund for military, civilian and business aid to Ukraine. Danmarks Radio, the Danish public-service broadcaster, reported that the new funds were earmarked for military aid.

• Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill that sanctions Iran for 50 years. The bill was put forward by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The bill will stop Iranian goods transiting through Ukraine and ban use of its airspace, as well as imposing trade, financial and technology sanctions against Iran and its citizens.

• Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin “appears to have again indirectly undermined Russian president Vladimir Putin’s authority and regime”, the Institute for the Study of War wrote in its latest analysis of the conflict. The US-based thinktank based its assertion on the response given by Prigozhin to a journalist asking about Russian state media’s ban on any discussion of Wagner.

• Foreign investors who left Russia after selling their businesses there between March 2022 and March 2023 withdrew about $36bn from the country, the state RIA news agency reports, citing analysis of data from the Central Bank.

• The death toll from a Russian missile attack on a medical facility in Dnipro on Friday rose from two to four people, according to the region’s governor.