The US ambassador to Ukraine has shared a picture of her phone screen with a series of critical air raid alert messages, external, to show what people in Ukraine have experienced this morning.

Bridget Brink says as a result of the messages, "millions of men, women, and children are in bomb shelters as Russia fires missiles across the country.

"Ukraine needs funding now to continue to fight for freedom from such horror in 2024," she adds.

The US government has recently released $250m (£195m) in military aid for Ukraine, but an ongoing row over further funding means this is the last support to be sent to Kyiv for now.

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James Waterhouse
Ukraine correspondent in Kyiv

This is the most damage I've seen in a single missile strike so far in this war.

The warehouse is around 200m long and it has been hollowed out from front to back and the silhouettes of firefighters can occasionally be made out amidst the dense smoke inside.

It's a morning where scenes of destruction like this are being replicated across Ukraine.

Kyiv would have been forgiven for thinking direct hits like this might have been a thing of the past with its improved air defences, but with an uncertain forecast for continued western support, it may well be bracing itself once more.

Gen Christian Freuding, an adviser to German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, says that Ukraine's military is succeeding and Russia's has suffered huge losses.

"Eighty per cent of Ukraine is still free... The Russian Black Sea Fleet has de facto been pushed out of the western Black Sea," Gen Freuding told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. He was referring to Ukraine's attack on a Russian battleship earlier this week, which has diminished Russia's ability to launch missile strikes from the sea.

Referring to recent US estimates, Gen Freuding says that 300,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded, losses he calls "enormous".

Russia will emerge from the war "weakened," he says. But he also adds that Moscow might be able to reconstitute its forces in around five to eight years - a timeframe he says should be taken into account by Western countries when determining how to maintain "deterrence" against Moscow.

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Daria Taradai
BBC Ukrainian correspondent, in Lviv

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One of my colleagues messaged me last night saying: “It seems to me that it was the loudest explosion I have ever heard in Lviv”.

This ancient and beautiful city is currently full of people here to celebrate the New Year.

Today, you can hardly buy train tickets to Lviv. People from different regions rush here to enjoy at least a bit of the holiday mood, despite the war.

For many weeks there were no massive missile attacks on Lviv. But this morning locals and tourists were counting the explosions while desperately waiting for the signal to say the air alert had ended.

It feels like a terrible flashback of last winter when such strikes woke us up every other night.

We went outside soon after the end of the air alert, and the streets of Lviv were full of people again.

We all have learned how to survive and to continue living in this new reality.

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We've just received these pictures of a warehouse in Kyiv where one person has been killed in a Russian strike.

Emergency services are working to extinguish fires and check for survivors buried under the rubble.

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James Waterhouse
Ukraine correspondent in Kyiv

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This is Russian President Vladimir Putin reminding Ukraine that he can still target all of it.

The US's latest military aid package is worth $250m and includes ammunition for air defences - and these have been tested very much overnight.

The country's air force says it has never seen so many incoming missiles on its radar.

That is saying something in a war where Russia has routinely targeted cities it can’t occupy.

Here in Kyiv, we were woken up by three very loud, very powerful explosions. That's a rarity in this part of the city now, where the air defences have significantly improved.

However it seems the scale and coordination of this attack has overwhelmed them.

Ukraine's military says that, according to preliminary results, Russia used 158 means of air attack in its "massive military attack" on Ukraine.

The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, says Russia used the more "traditional" method of deploying Iranian-made Shahed drones first.

This was followed by the use of at least 55 cruise missiles, 14 ballistic missiles, five aeroballistic missiles and a number of anti-radar missiles.

Zaluzhnyi says Ukraine downed 27 of the 36 drones launched from Russia, as well as 87 missiles.

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It's just gone 11:00 in Kyiv, here are the latest numbers of dead and wounded from across Ukraine:

• In Kyiv two have been killed and 18 others injured
• One person is dead in Lviv and nine others are wounded
• Five are dead in Dnipro after a strike on a shopping centre, 15 others are injured
• In the port city of Odesa two are dead and at least 15 others injured
• One person has been killed after shelling in Kharkiv which has injured at least nine others
• In Zaporizhzhia one person has been killed after attacks on infrastructure, and 10 were injured

Stay with us as we continue to bring you live updates.

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Ukraine says 12 people have been killed and more than 75 injured as a result of this morning's missile attacks.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted on X , externalsaying educational facilities, a maternity ward and private homes were among the buildings hit in Russian attacks on several Ukrainian cities.

“Today, Russia used nearly every type of weapon in its arsenal,” he says.

“A total of around 110 missiles were fired against Ukraine, with the majority of them being shot down.”

Zelensky says efforts are underway to provide the necessary aid to those affected and vows to respond to the attacks.

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The mayor of Lviv says one person has been killed and eight others injured in the western city.

Andriy Sadovy also reports a school has been damaged, posting a picture of a classroom with its windows shattered and debris strewn across the room.

The person was killed in a strike on a residential building which injured three of the eight, according to the regional military administration head Maksym Kozytskyy.

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Two people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine, according to the region's governor Oleh Kiper.

He says Russia aimed at residential buildings and that more than a dozen people were injured – including two children under the age of 10.

Two of the injured are said to be in a serious condition.

As well as the missiles, Kiper says the wider Odesa region was also struck by drones, damaging buildings and causing a fire that has since been extinguished.

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Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko says one person has been confirmed killed in the Ukrainian capital.

Giving an update on the ongoing rescue operation, Klitschko says the victim's body was pulled from the rubble of a warehouse hit in a Russian strike.

He adds that emergency services have managed to save three people from the remains of the building, and at least three more are believed to be trapped.

Klitschko says 16 people have been hospitalised in Kyiv after Russia's wave of attacks.

The search and rescue operation is continuing.

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Four people have been killed in Dnipro after a maternity hospital, residential building and shopping centre were attacked by Russian strikes.

Regional head for Dnipro Serhiy Lysak says the dead were among nearly a dozen people injured in the attacks.

He says a fire broke out at the shopping centre, while the maternity hospital and a six-story block of flats were destroyed.

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Ukraine's air force says it has "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously" as this morning.

Air force spokesman Yuriy Ignat says Russia has deployed a variety of different weapons, including drones and hypersonic missiles.

He also says strategic bombers were used in the strikes.

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Yesterday the White House approved another tranche of US military aid to Ukraine worth some $250m (£195m).

US officials say the latest package includes air defence, artillery and small arms ammunition, and anti-tank weapons.

But it marks the last funding available without fresh approval from Congress, where talks have stalled.

Ukraine has warned that the war effort and its public finances would be at risk if further Western aid was not forthcoming.

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James Waterhouse
Ukraine correspondent in Kyiv

After a night of sirens, sunrise came with three powerful explosions in central Kyiv. They all made the windows rattle.

Russia has launched missile and drone attacks across Ukraine. Authorities say more than 10 Iranian-made Shahed drones struck the western city of Lviv, while Sumy in the north-east was hit by shelling from across the border.

Officials in Odesa say a high-rise building caught fire after being struck by a drone. There’ve also been several explosions in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv. There are only a few reported injuries so far.

It comes a day after President Zelensky thanked the US for its last approved $250m military aid package, which included air defence ammunition.

Nadia Ragozhina
Live reporter

Welcome to our coverage of the war in Ukraine, as cities across the country have come under a large wave of Russian missile and drone attacks.

At least two people have been killed and at least eighteen others injured in the attacks on the capital Kyiv, Lviv in the west and Kharkiv in the east.

Dozens more are injured, with at least three people buried under rubble after an attack on a warehouse in Kyiv.

Stay with us as we continue to bring you live updates.