Joanna Kikisis

For hours, all we could hear in Kiev was the sound of constant explosions and the low growl of attack drones flying overhead.

Many blasts came from Ukrainian air defense trying to shoot down 90 missiles and 600 attack drones launched by Russia.

By morning, smoke rose over the city as fires burned in nearly every district.

Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia hit a city near Kyiv with a hypersonic or rechnik ballistic missile, which can carry nuclear warheads.

It's the third time Russia has used this missile during its full-scale war on Ukraine.

Joanna Kekisis, NPR News, Kyiv.

Ukrainian defense forces said they hit one of Russia's largest oil terminals on the Black Sea, as well as logistics and ammunition hubs in occupied Ukraine.

Ukraine has been using its own long-range drones in these strikes.

NPR recently joined a military team that launches them.

A member of the unit who uses the military call sign Yuki said this is how Ukraine is imposing its own sanctions on Russia to force it into a just and lasting peace.

The Trump administration is focused on its war on Iran and has loosened some sanctions on Russian oil.

Joanna Kikissis, NPR News, Kyiv.

Ukrainians celebrated their fifth Easter under siege from Russia, which launched a full-scale war in 2022.

They filled churches to declare Christos Vokres, or Christ is Risen.

The truce to celebrate Orthodox Easter was supposed to start on Saturday afternoon.

By Sunday, though, Ukraine's military said it recorded combat clashes on the front line and

and Russian drone and shelling strikes in civilian areas.

Russia is also accusing Ukraine of drone strikes in Russian regions that injured several people.

Joanna Kekisis, NPR News, Kyiv.

Attack drones flew over neighborhoods in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, as air defense units tried to shoot them down.