Russia launched a mass missile attack on Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine on the morning of July 8, killing at least 30 civilians and injuring 100 others, the State Emergency Service said at 3 p.m. local time.

The aerial attack targeted Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, Pokrovsk, and Kramatorsk, damaging "50 civilian sites, including residential buildings, a business center, and two medical facilities," the State Emergency Service reported.

So far, at least 17 people have been recorded killed in Kyiv. Another 48 were injured in the capital, while two others were injured in Kyiv Oblast. In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where the cities of Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih are located, 11 people were killed and 62 were injured, the State Emergency Service said. More than 10 explosions could be heard in Kyiv the morning, according to Kyiv Independent reporters on the ground. Air defense was active in the capital's suburbs, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. 

Russia launched another attack against Kyiv during the afternoon of July 8, damaging a maternity hospital and killing at least seven people, hours after a mass attack struck Ukraine's largest children's medical center.

At least four people were killed and three injured after the Isida maternity hospital, a private clinic, in Kyiv's Dniprovskyi district was hit by falling debris, the State Emergency Service said.

The number of killed has risen to seven, while three people were confirmed injured, the Prosecutor General's Office said at around 3 p.m. local time.

The statement did not specify whether the victims were patients or staff of the hospital.