Agencies

Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about unconditional talks with Ukraine in an effort to end the war, its forces hit military targets in Ukraine with long-range high-precision weapons on Friday in response to an attack on Russia's Rostov region this week in which Ukraine used  US and British-supplied missiles, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

A Russian missile attack killed one person and damaged buildings across Kyiv, local officials said, while  explosions were heard in Ukraine's capital on Friday.

The rush-hour attack sparked fires in several buildings and damaged multiple office buildings, according to the head of Kyiv's military administration, Serhiy Popko.

Russian forces used eight missiles, including hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles, to carry out the attack, according to Popko.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the attack injured at

least seven people, four of whom were taken to the hospital. Ukrainian air defences were engaged in repelling the missile attack on Kyiv, local officials and the air force said earlier on Friday.

Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine had launched six US-made long-range ATACMs missiles and four British-made Storm Shadow missiles at Russia's southern Rostov region a day earlier.