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(LONDON) — Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Monday, injuring at least two people, the city’s administration said.

Moscow fired cruise and ballistic missiles at the city beginning about 3 a.m., officials said in a message posted on the Telegram messaging app.

At least two people were injured, including one who was hospitalized, according to Serhiy Popko, head of the city’s administration.

About 34 cruise and ballistic missiles were fired, along with about 23 Shahed drones, the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security of Ukraine said.

Air defenses in Ukraine destroyed at least nine ballistic and 13 cruise missiles, the government group said. Twenty of the drones were destroyed and three “did not reach their targets,” it added.

A Russian missile struck one of the city’s Islamic Cultural Centers, located in a mosque, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that “Russia has no regard for spiritual or human values, and no respect for any religion or faith.”

“The world must see that Russia’s war is not only against Ukraine, but also against humanity, dignity, and human life,” Zelenskyy said on social media. “Such barbaric acts have no place in our modern world. They must be strongly condemned and met with firm action by the international community.”

The early morning attack arrived a week after Russia launched a countrywide assault on Ukraine, strikes that were among the largest such aerial attacks since the war began in 2022, according to Zelenskyy.

Russia last Monday fired at least 127 missiles and 109 drones in an attack that lasted over eight hours.

The strikes on Monday arrived on the first day of a new school year for children throughout Ukraine, “despite the war and all the challenges,” Zelenskyy said.

“Ukraine is doing everything possible to provide children with maximum opportunities,” he said on social media. “All of our schools and higher education institutions that are operating today are a testament to our people’s resilience and Ukraine’s strength.”

Monday’s attack on Kyiv came a day after Russia hammered Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, with ballistic missiles and glide bombs, injuring dozens of people.

At least 47 people, including seven children, were injured in the Kharkiv strikes, according to Ukrainian emergency services officials. Three people were rescued after being buried by rubble, officials said.

The Russian strikes on Kharkiv followed a wave of drone strikes launched by Ukraine inside Russia over the weekend that damaged an oil refinery near Moscow.

Zelenskyy said the purpose of the drone strikes inside Russia is to bring home the war to Russia.

“The terrorist state must feel what war is. We are working to ensure that as many Russian military facilities, logistics hubs, and critical components of their war economy as possible fall within the reach of our weapons,” Zelenskyy said in a Sunday evening address. “With our drones and missiles, we can accomplish part of the missions. But true peace — a real end to this war — is a complex task. To force Russia into peace, to move them from deceitful rhetoric about negotiations to taking steps to end the war, to clear our land of occupation and occupiers, we need effective tools.”

ABC News’ Patrick Reevell contributed to this report.

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(LONDON) — Ukrainian and Russian authorities reported dueling drone attacks overnight into Thursday as an intense and bloody week of long-range strikes continued.

The Kyiv City Military Administration posted on Telegram early on Thursday to report “another sustained massive attack by Russian attack drones,” citing administration head Serhiy Popko.

The capital’s air raid sirens began sounding before midnight, and the threat lasted for more than nine hours, Popko said.

“Almost all the southern, northern, eastern, central and part of the western regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv, were under the threat of an air strike,” he said.

“All drones that threatened the capital were neutralized,” Popko said, noting no casualties or damage were reported in the capital.

The Ukrainian air force issued drone, bomb and missile warnings via its Telegram channel throughout the night and into Thursday morning, reporting one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 78 Shahed UAVs fired into the country.

Ukrainian defenses downed 60 attack UAVs, the air force said, with two drones returning back into Russian airspace and one into Belarusian. Fifteen were “lost” over Ukrainian territory, it added.

Strikes also continued close to the front. Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, noted explosions near the town of Nikpol, along the Dnieper River which forms part of the contact line with Russian forces. Among the weapons used were attack drones, Lysak said.

In Sumy — close to Ukraine’s northeastern border with Russia — local authorities reported 37 explosions overnight, from a range of weapons including glide bombs and an FPV drone.

The Ukrainian General Staff on Thursday morning reported 14 missiles and 72 airstrikes in the previous 24 hours.

Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said that its air defense teams intercepted one Vilkha rocket and two drones over the territory of the Belgorod region, three drones over the Kursk region and two more over the Bryansk region.

The ministry also said its forces destroyed two “unmanned boats” in the “north-eastern part of the Black Sea.”

Unconfirmed reports circulating on social media suggested a fire at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk following a possible naval drone attack.

The overnight exchanges even expanded into Belarusian airspace, Minsk confirmed, reporting “a violation” of its state borders, “presumably by unmanned aerial vehicles.”

“A decision was made to destroy them,” the Defense Ministry wrote on Telegram. “Timely actions by the air defense forces on duty destroyed all the intruder targets. An investigation is being conducted into this incident.”

The ministry did not offer any information on who was responsible for the UAVs, nor confirm how many aircraft were downed.

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(LONDON) — Divers in Italy have recovered the last missing body, believe to be that of Hannah Lynch, from the superyacht that sunk off the Sicilian coast, ABC News has learned.

Five bodies had been recovered by early Thursday morning but the body of the final missing passenger — believed to be Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of the yacht’s owner, British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – was located inside the yacht but was not able to be brought to shore.

Mike Lynch’s body is believed to have been among those already recovered from the yacht, though the identities of the dead have not been officially confirmed.

Rescue teams had been facing a “very hard” operation to find those still missing after the superyacht sunk on Monday, a spokesperson for the onsite fire brigade teams told ABC News.

Luca Cari said on Wednesday that the rescue operation for the people missing from the U.K.-flagged Bayesian was ongoing. The vessel was lost early on Monday in stormy weather around half a mile from the fishing village of Porticello, close to the city of Palermo.

Divers had been operating inside the yacht for two days, Cari added. “But the job is very hard because there are large obstacles and [we] have to work in very narrow spaces.”

“It’s a long process and we can only operate in short spells,” said Cari. Divers have to be rotated constantly, with each only able to stay underwater for around 12 minutes, he said.

Two Americans — Christopher and Neda Morvillo — were among the missing, ABC News confirmed on Tuesday.

Christopher Morvillo is a partner at law firm Clifford Chance and represented Lynch in his recent fraud case brought by Hewlett Packard. He is a former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Anne Elizabeth Judith Bloomer are also among the six missing passengers.

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