Russia launched five ballistic missiles against Ukraine's capital on Friday morning. Residential and office buildings, a hotel, and the embassy of Portugal in Kyiv were damaged.
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A series of powerful explosions rocked Kyiv on Friday morning, striking the city's embassy row and causing widespread damage across multiple districts in Ukraine's capital, as air defences intercepted the incoming missiles.
Portugal's foreign ministry confirmed that its embassy in Kyiv was damaged alongside "several diplomatic missions".
"It is absolutely unacceptable that any attack should target or have an impact on diplomatic premises," Lisbon said in a written statement.
"The chargé d'affaires of the Russian Embassy (in Portugal) has been summoned to the MFA so that a formal protest can be lodged with the Russian Federation," the statement added.
Portugal's Foreign Minister later clarified that the damage was “relatively minor”: “broken windows, damaged doors”. He also stressed that there are diplomatic representations from several countries in the same building, including Argentina, Albania and Montenegro.
The European Commission president issued a statement on X, calling the Russian attack 'heinous' and confirming that the building hosting the embassy of Portugal and "several other diplomatic services" have been damaged.
"Putin’s disregard for international law reaches new heights," Ursula von der Leyen said.
The statement was echoed by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas, who said, "No diplomatic representation should ever be targeted or even impacted." Kallas also noted that this attack showed "no willingness for peace."
According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, the strikes left debris in the Holosiivskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Dniprovskyi districts, causing fires on rooftops and damaging vehicles.
The Holosiivskyi district was the hardest hit, local media reported, with missile debris damaging office buildings, gas pipelines, and civilian vehicles.
Kyiv’s Military Administration reported one fatality and three injuries in Holosiivskyi, while Mayor Klitschko later said there were seven injuries across the city but made no mention of deaths.
The city's authorities claim Russia used a combination of Kinzhal ballistic missiles and either Iskander-M or KN-23 systems.
The Russian defence ministry, meanwhile, claimed the attack was a response to Kyiv's strike on the Kamensky Combine in Russia's Rostov region and said Moscow forces had launched a strike with long-range precision weapons targeting the Ukrainian security service's command post and the Kyiv Luch design bureau, which develops various anti-aircraft and missile systems.
Euronews could not independently verify these claims.
The missile strikes followed an overnight drone assault on Kyiv, where all drones were reportedly intercepted by Ukrainian forces. A separate drone attack in the Boryspil district of Kyiv region ignited a large warehouse fire.
Meanwhile, heavy Russian artillery shelling in Kherson damaged apartment buildings, killing one person and injuring six. Ukrainian authorities also reported a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, where five people were injured and residential buildings damaged.