Ukrainian emergency services have continued to recover bodies from under rubble in Kyiv after Russia hit the city with a huge missile and drone attack overnight into Tuesday.

At least 28 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, officials said, as the death toll increased on Wednesday after having been revised several times, both upwards and downwards. There were also two fatalities in Odesa.

As part of the strikes, a drone smashed into an apartment block destroying dozens of flats.

The attack was among the biggest on the capital since the start of Russia’s full-scale war, with Ukraine’s interior minister saying the country had been hit by 440 drones and 32 missiles.

Russia’s defence ministry said it had targeted Ukraine’s military-industrial complexes and that all its targets had been hit.

The strikes on Kyiv lasted more than nine hours – sending residents fleeing to underground shelters from before midnight until after sunrise.

Officials said a ballistic missile hit a nine-storey apartment building in the southwestern Solomyanskyi district – bodies continued to be recovered from the site on Wednesday.

A total of 27 locations in the city came under fire, according to authorities.

A 62-year-old US citizen was among those killed in Solomyanskyi, Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said early on Tuesday.

US State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce later confirmed the “tragic death” of an American citizen.

Standing in front of the remains of the building, Klitschko said more than 40 apartments had been destroyed and more people might be trapped under the rubble.

He accused Russia of firing cluster bomblets filled with ball bearings to kill as many people as possible.

“Waking up in utter nightmare: people trapped under rubble and full buildings collapsed,” Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko wrote on X on Tuesday.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that a variety of buildings had come under Russian attack, including residential, critical infrastructure and educational facilities.

People were still under the rubble by late afternoon on Tuesday and rescue work was going on at two sites, he said. Klymenko explained that initial mistakes made in counting the dead often happened because body parts were wrongly identified.

Loud explosions rocked the city in the early hours of Tuesday, along with the rattle of the machine guns used by mobile Ukrainian air defence units to shoot down drones.

More sirens later in the morning disrupted rescue operations in the city, hampering emergency workers searching the rubble for survivors.

Russia has intensified its air attacks against Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, with a tactic of sending large waves of drones and decoys designed to overwhelm Ukrainian air defences.

Kyiv has launched attacks of its own, as direct talks between the warring sides failed to secure a ceasefire or significant breakthrough.

Russia accused Ukrainian forces of launching a missile strike on a district in occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, and Russia-appointed officials said at least 10 people had been hurt.

A reported 147 Ukrainian drones were shot down over nine Russian regions overnight, Russian news agencies said.

President Zelensky called Russia’s most recent wave of strikes “pure terrorism”.

He accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of carrying out the large-scale strikes “solely because he can afford to continue this war”.

“It is bad when the powerful of this world turn a blind eye to this,” he said, adding: “It is the terrorists who should feel the pain, not normal, peaceful people.”

Drone strikes also hit the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, killing two people and wounding 10 others, officials said.

Zelensky had been hoping to speak with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit on Tuesday, but Trump cut short his stay amid the escalating crisis in the Middle East.

The news would have come as a blow to Zelensky and his administration, which had been hoping to secure US support at the conference for Ukraine’s strategic and military goals.