KYIV, Ukraine, Jan 9, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - A "massive" Russian night-time attack 
on Ukraine damaged 20 residential buildings in Kyiv and its suburbs, as well 
as Qatar's embassy, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday.

Russia hit Ukraine as temperatures plunged to freezing with its latest 
barrage of missiles -- including the hypersonic Oreshnik -- as Moscow 
rejected Western proposals to end its almost four-year invasion.

Kyiv was the worst hit in the strikes, Ukraine said, with four people killed 
and at least 25 wounded.

"Twenty residential buildings alone were damaged," Zelensky said, adding that 
"a building of the Embassy of Qatar was damaged last night by a Russian 
drone".

"Qatar, a state that does so much to mediate with Russia in order to secure 
the release of prisoners of war and civilians held in Russian prisons," he 
said.

Zelensky said Russia attacked with 13 ballistic missiles, including the 
Oreshnik, and 22 cruise missiles, while also launching 242 drones on Ukraine.

Russian military bloggers said the Oreshnik missile was used to hit a major 
gas depot in the Lviv region in western Ukraine.

The Ukrainian leader said an ambulance worker was among those killed in Kyiv 
in a double-tap attack.

"There was a second strike on one of the residential buildings -- precisely 
at the moment when first responders were providing assistance after the first 
strike," he said.

Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said Russia "repeatedly struck a 
high-rise building at a time when rescuers and medics were working on site" 
in what he called a "deliberate attack on the emergency services."

He said the capital and the surrounding region "suffered the most" and that 
20 other non-residential buildings in Kyiv were also damaged.

"Almost all districts in the Kyiv region were under enemy attack," Klymenko 
said.

Russia's strikes hit as temperatures in Ukraine dipped to below -10C and left 
tens of thousands without power.

"The enemy's inhuman goal is to leave millions of people without light, heat 
and water in the middle of a freezing winter," Klymenko said.