Russia bombarded six regions of Ukraine on Friday, Ukrainian officials said, with a nighttime assault lasting for hours and leaving three emergency responders in the capital Kyiv dead.

The barrage included 407 drones and 44 ballistic and cruise missiles, Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said. Ukrainian forces said they shot down about 30 of the cruise missiles and up to 200 of the drones.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and the general prosecutor's office, said three emergency workers were killed.

People look at a residential multi-storey building damaged after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday. (Evgeniy Maloletka/The Associated Press)

"They were working under fire to help people," the Interior Ministry said in a

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