The fatality was in the Dniprovskyi district, where the State Emergency Service reported damage to houses and cars and fires in residential and non-residential buildings; five more people were injured there.
Six Kyiv districts were hit: Dniprovskyi, Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Obolonskyi, Pecherskyi and Holosiivskyi. Transport infrastructure was damaged in Darnytskyi. In Pecherskyi, eight people were injured, three of them children, and buildings, ambulances and a monastery were damaged. In Holosiivskyi, six people were injured after a strike on a non-residential building. In Sviatoshynskyi, a non-residential building and a restaurant complex caught fire; the blaze, which covered 1,100 square metres, was extinguished.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said part of the metro infrastructure on the Southern Bridge was damaged. Road traffic was temporarily halted on the bridge across the Dnipro because of the strike, causing traffic jams in the city.
Klitschko said an ambulance station was also hit and six vehicles destroyed. Ukrainian media reported that an Epicentr hypermarket was struck.
Russia's Defence Ministry said that in Kyiv "enterprises of Ukraine's military-industrial complex involved in the production and storage of cruise missiles and long- and medium-range unmanned aerial vehicles, and transport infrastructure facilities" were hit.
Strikes were carried out on other regions at the same time. In the Kharkiv region, 11 settlements were attacked over the past day, according to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional state administration. In the village of Lymanivka in the Lozova district, a 42-year-old woman was killed and a 13-year-old boy was injured, while eight other people, including a 10-year-old child, suffered an acute stress reaction. In Derhachi, a 46-year-old woman was injured, and in the settlement of Vysokyi, a 35-year-old woman and a five-year-old girl were injured.
In the Poltava and Vinnytsia regions, energy facilities were struck, according to the heads of the regional administrations. In Kremenchuk, a drone destroyed the building of a local television and radio company.
In the Donetsk region, two people were killed in shelling, in Druzhkivka and Kramatorsk, according to Vadym Filashkin, head of the regional administration. Nine more people were injured over the day.
According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with more than 200 drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
The strike on Kyiv came several hours after US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff visited St Petersburg and met Vladimir Putin. The talks discussed ending Russia's war with Ukraine, Meduza reported.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha responded to the attack, alluding to Witkoff's remark calling Putin a "humanist". The diplomat said that "appeasement, servility and flattery will not stop this war"