Russia launched a major attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and killed at least 13 people in strikes across the country as the two sides released hundreds more prisoners on the second day of a major prisoner exchange.

Two successive nighttime Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv came amid a major prisoner exchange between the two countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Moscow is currently believed to control around 20% of Ukrainian territory.