Rescuers in Kyiv worked to clear rubble and search for survivors on Friday, after a Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 30 people a day earlier. Flags were lowered to half-mast as the city marked a day of mourning.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 92 people were injured, and that the parents of a hospitalised 10-year-old boy, along with a 15-year-old girl, were still unaccounted for. Rescue and identification efforts continued for a second day, with forensic experts helping determine victims’ identities.

The attack was described as the deadliest Russian strike on Ukraine’s capital this year, affecting many parts of Kyiv, with the scale and spread of destruction reported as exceptional even given the war’s duration. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia’s strategy was increasingly focused on targeting residential buildings rather than pursuing an end to the conflict.

Separately, a Russian drone strike on a house in the northern Sumy region killed four people overnight on Friday, including a woman and her toddler daughter, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office.