Russia has launched a major missile and drone attack on Kyiv, killing six people and wounding at least 35, including a pregnant woman.

Defence Ministry released a video showing explosions and people holding up Russian flags in the Ukrainian village of Yablukove, claiming that its forces had captured the settlement the Zaporizhzhia region,

The video, likened to a scene from "Mad Max," was geolocated by NBC News to Pokrovsk, where fierce battles have been taking place as Russia pushes to capture the city.

Video from Sterlitamak in the Bashkortostan region, which is around 1,000km (620 miles) away from the border with Ukraine, captured an explosion at a petrochemical plant. Regional governor Radiy Khabirov later said Sterlitamak was attacked by two drones and “debris fell in an industrial zone”.

As Ukrainian troops struggle to defend a key city in Ukraine's east, a widening energy corruption scandal in Kyiv implicates a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and forces resignations in his cabinet.

At least two people have been killed in a drone attack in Ukraine’s Odesa region, according to Ukrainian authorities.

An investigation by Ukrainian state anti-corruption agencies into an alleged $100m kickback scheme in the country's energy sector led to the resignation of two senior Ukrainian ministers this week. Th