The overnight attacks comes as Ukrainian and US officials concluded high-level talks in Geneva aimed at bringing Russia’s full-scale invasion to an end.
Russia launched a wave of overnight strikes targeting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv as well as several other cities, including the northeastern region of Sumy, despite ongoing US efforts to bring the war, well into its fourth year, to an end.
Video footage circulating online showed residential buildings in Kyiv to have suffered an early morning strike, reports which were later confirmed by local officials.
A building in the central Pechersk district and another in Kyiv's eastern district of Dniprovskyi were badly damaged, said Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko.
Ukraine’s energy ministry said that energy infrastructure had also been targeted in the overnight barrage, without offering details on the type or the extent of the damage.
Separately, officials in Sumy also announced in the early hours of Tuesday that a Russian drone struck a service truck in the region, which had been stationed there following repeated Russian strikes on the area that continued late into Monday.
Moscow’s attacks followed talks between US and Ukrainian representatives in the Swiss city of Geneva on Sunday about a US-Russia brokered peace plan.
Oleksandr Bevz, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, told The Associated Press on Monday that the talks had been “very constructive” and the two sides were able to discuss most points.
Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Monday that Russia had not seen the updated plan following the Geneva talks.