Russia targeted Kyiv with an aerial assault for the ninth time this month. Explosions rocked Ukraine's capital as air defenses intercepted the missiles, local officials said. Missile strikes were also launched on the port city of Odesa, where at least one person was killed.
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China's most senior diplomat to visit Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion has finished talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials, with no apparent breakthrough in Beijing's efforts to promote a cease-fire.
A new program by the Ukrainian government to help repair damaged homes has drawn more than 10,000 applications in its first week, officials said. About a third of the applications originated in the battered region of Kharkiv, the restoration ministry said.