Russia has struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days. The top official in the Ukrainian said Wednesday that capital defense forces destroyed several cruise and ballistic missiles and up to a dozen drones.

In the Kyiv region, there is a wounded man from the Russian attack on the night of November 13. A warehouse also caught fire, according to Ruslan Kravchenko, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration and State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian 95th airborne assault brigade released drone footage that it said showed strikes on Russian troops in Kursk region. Ukraine's top commander said Russia was aiming to retake territory it lost in the summer when Ukraine launched an incursion.

Russia escalated its attacks on Kyiv early Wednesday, launching waves of drones and missiles in its first combined aerial assault on the capital in more than 70 days, authorities said."As missiles were approaching Kyiv,

The United States confirmed Tuesday that North Korean troops, who have been deployed to Russia's western front-line Kursk region, have begun engaging in combat operations against Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine said its hard-pressed military was battling 50,000 troops in Russia’s Kursk region to its north, while also scrambling to reinforce two besieged fronts in the east and bracing to meet an infantry assault in the south.