Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, suffered a ballistic missile attack by Russia early Monday, according to the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko.

Local authorities said that at least 12 people were killed and more than 50 more were wounded in the attacks on the capital.

Russia launched 419 air attacks using six Zircon missiles, 23 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles, six Kalibr cruise missiles and 33 Kh-101 cruise missiles, Ukraine's Air Force said in a statement on X. The remaining were Shahed-type drones, it added.

Ukraine's air force data showed it was not able to shoot down any of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia, underscoring the need for more US-made Patriot interceptors.

The air force said that it had, however, downed 326 drones and all but two of the cruise missiles.

Reacting to the attacks, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Ukraine "urgently needs more air defense."

"We will discuss it this week in Ankara at the NATO summit," she said on social media.

Meanwhile, Russian authorities reported that Ukrainian drone attacks damaged the Baltic Sea ports Vysotsk and Ust-Luga.

The latter is a major oil exporting outlet and the damage has caused a power blackout in the Crimean city of Sevastopol which houses Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

Residential buildings hit in Kyiv

Klitschko took to his Telegram channel to say that people could be trapped under the building's rubble between the building's seventh and ninth floors in Kyiv's historic Podil district.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's city military administration, said the a residential building in the Podilskyi district partially collapsed.

He also said that several multistory buildings were damaged in the Darnytsia district and that people were believed to be trapped under the rubble.

"These are residential buildings. Places where people slept and lived their ordinary lives," Tkachenko said.

Earlier, Klitschko asked people to seek shelter due to a missile attack, and the city's head of the military administration warned people of incoming ballistic missiles.

Kyiv regional governor Mykola Kalashnyk said that another person died and 10 others were injured in Bucha, a town near Kyiv, due to Russian attacks.

Kyiv is repeatedly targeted by Russia

Last Thursday, at least 30 people were killed in a series of Russian attacks on Kyiv, bringing the city to announce a day of mourning after one of the heaviest attacks on it this year.

Russia has repeatedly been attacking Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles since its full-scale invasion of its neighboring country, Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II.

US-led mediation attempts have so far failed to bring about a breakthrough, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expected to meet US President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Turkey next week.

Edited by: Dmytro Hubenko

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