<p>An overnight Russian drone attack on the Kyiv region injured a 19-year-old woman and set a residential house on fire, Mykola Kalashnyk, governor of the region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, said early on Wednesday.</p><p>"She was hospitalised with an injury to her head," Kalashnyk wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.</p><p>Kalashnyk posted photos of firefighters battling large flames at night in what appeared to be a residential building.</p>.Russia says it wants a long-term Ukraine peace deal, not a quick US-backed ceasefire.<p><em>Reuters</em> could not independently verify the report, but <em>Reuters</em> witnesses said they heard blasts in and around Kyiv in what sounded like air defence systems in operation.</p><p>The capital's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Telegram that the city was under air attack.</p><p>Kyiv, the region surrounding it and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts starting at around 2000 GMT, according to Ukraine's air force data.</p><p>There was no immediate comment from Russia.</p><p>Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, which Russia launched three years ago on its smaller neighbour and which has since killed thousands, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.</p>
<p>An overnight Russian drone attack on the Kyiv region injured a 19-year-old woman and set a residential house on fire, Mykola Kalashnyk, governor of the region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, said early on Wednesday.</p><p>"She was hospitalised with an injury to her head," Kalashnyk wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.</p><p>Kalashnyk posted photos of firefighters battling large flames at night in what appeared to be a residential building.</p>.Russia says it wants a long-term Ukraine peace deal, not a quick US-backed ceasefire.<p><em>Reuters</em> could not independently verify the report, but <em>Reuters</em> witnesses said they heard blasts in and around Kyiv in what sounded like air defence systems in operation.</p><p>The capital's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Telegram that the city was under air attack.</p><p>Kyiv, the region surrounding it and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts starting at around 2000 GMT, according to Ukraine's air force data.</p><p>There was no immediate comment from Russia.</p><p>Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, which Russia launched three years ago on its smaller neighbour and which has since killed thousands, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.</p>