Business Insider journalists witnessed a rare, day-long Russian onslaught that began with daytime drones and turned into nighttime missile fire.

Ukrainian emergency services said today that a massive Russian missile and drone attack that pummelled Kyiv yesterday killed at least 24 people, further shredding hopes of a halt to Moscow's grinding invasion.

More than 1,500 Russian drones and dozens of missiles were launched in the last two days, according to Ukrainian officials.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired at least 800 drones in a massive daytime barrage on about 20 regions of Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, including children, in one of the longest attacks by Moscow in the 4-year-old war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

As dawn broke on a clear day in Kyiv, a scene of devastation came into focus in the capital’s leafy Darnytsia neighborhood, located between a suburban forest and the Dnieper River.