A video captured the moment a Russian drone struck an apartment block in Ukraine in Vladimir Putin's latest attack on the war-torn country.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight assault, officials said Friday, killing at least four people in the capital. 

Footage shows a drone whizzing over Kyiv and striking a tower block, as the sound of a thunderous explosion rings out.

The building is then seen erupting into flames while car alarms go off in the background.

According to the city authorities, the drone attack damaged residential buildings and infrastructure, including critical ones, and resulted in deaths and injuries.

In some areas of the city, there are power and water outages as a result of the strike. 

For only the second time in the nearly four-year-old war, Russia also used a powerful, new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv's NATO allies.

The nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile struck the city of Lviv after it was fired from Russia's Kapustin Yar test range near the Caspian Sea in southwestern Russia.

A Russian drone is seen here whizzing over Kyiv before striking a tower block

Footage shows the moment the drone strikes the apartment building before the tower block erupts in flames 

Smoke is seen billowing out from a residential building after a drone struck Kyiv

It took less than 15 minutes to explode over the city in a trademark shower of bright flashes with the night sky turning red. 

Russia claimed the strike was a response to a Ukrainian bid to kill Putin with a strike on his palace in Valdai, which Kyiv denies. 

Moscow didn't say where the Oreshnik hit, but Russian media and military bloggers said it targeted an underground natural gas storage facility in the Lviv region. 

Western military aid flows to Ukraine from a supply hub in Poland just across the border.

Putin has previously said the Oreshnik streaks to its target at Mach 10, 'like a meteorite,' and is immune to any missile defense system. 

Several of them used in a conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack, according to Putin, who has warned the West that Russia could use it against allies of Kyiv that allow it to strike inside Russia with longer-range missiles.

Ukrainian intelligence says the missile has six warheads, each carrying six submunitions.

Russia first used the Oreshnik missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024. Analysts say it gives Russia a new element of psychological warfare, unnerving Ukrainians and intimidating Western countries that aid Ukraine.