The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building rose to 24, officials said Friday. The cruise missile hit the nine-story corner apartment block Thursday during what the Ukrainian air force said was Russia’s biggest barrage on the country of the full-scale invasion.

Among the victims in Kyiv was 12-year-old Lyubava Yakovleva, whose father was killed during the war.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched more than 670 attack drones and 56 missiles in the attack

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.

Ukraine has prevented Russian arms and fuel from reaching the front line in a successful disruption campaign.

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