Zelensky: A Russian drone damaged the Qatari embassy building during the attack on Kyiv

SadaNews - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Friday that a Russian drone caused damage to the building of the Qatari embassy during the attack on Kyiv.

Zelensky added via the "Telegram" app that Qatar is assisting in mediating talks with Russia regarding the exchange of prisoners of war.

Russia launched a series of airstrikes on Ukraine late Thursday into Friday, with authorities reporting at least four people killed in the capital Kyiv, in addition to a hypersonic missile attack in the west of the country.

Zelensky warned on Thursday evening of the imminent threat of a "large-scale Russian attack" after Russia rejected a European plan to deploy a multinational force in Ukraine following the potential cessation of the war.

On Friday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry announced in a statement that Russia carried out strikes on "strategic targets" in Ukraine late Thursday into Friday using the hypersonic "Orishnyk" missile.

These strikes, the number and specific targets of which were not clearly defined, were described as "a response to the terrorist attack carried out by the Kyiv regime" on a site affiliated with Russian President Vladimir Putin in late December, which Ukraine strongly denies.

In Kyiv, police reported that drones targeted a number of residential buildings, resulting in the deaths of four people and the injury of 24 others.