RUSSIAN drones and missiles killed at least 14 civilians and injured several dozen others in Ukraine in overnight attacks, local officials said on Monday.

Nine deaths were reported in the capital, Kiev, where an apartment building partially collapsed.

The attacks came as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky began a visit to Britain on his way to the Nato summit in a bid to whip up what appears to be waning support from his country’s main military backer, the United States.

Russia fired 352 drones and decoys overnight, as well as 11 ballistic missiles and five cruise missiles, Ukraine’s air force said.

Air defences intercepted or jammed 339 drones and 15 missiles before they could reach their targets, a statement said.

A Russian ballistic missile strike destroyed a high school later in the day in Ukraine’s southern Odessa region, killing two staff, authorities said.

No children were on the premises due to the summer vacation, said Mr Zelensky.

The strikes came nearly a week after a Russian attack killed 28 people in Kiev, 23 of them in a residential building that collapsed after a direct missile hit.

Russian forces have continued to drive deeper into Ukraine as part of a summer push along the roughly 620-mile front line.