According to Ukraine, all 18 missiles were destroyed, and video revealed that air defenses destroyed targets above the city.
According to officials, at least three persons were hurt during the missile and drone barrage.
In recent weeks, Russia has intensified its bombing campaign in anticipation of an anticipated Ukrainian offensive.
In the ninth strike to target the nation's capital this month, the air raid alarm went off at roughly 02:30 local time (23:30 GMT Monday) and was removed two hours later.
The city center experienced an exceptionally high number of loud explosions as officials informed the populace via online communications that air defense had been activated.
Valerii Zaluzhny, the commander of Ukraine's armed forces, claimed that Russia assaulted Kyiv from the north, south, and east, employing 18 air, sea, and land-based missiles.
The "maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time" were fired during the barrage, according to Serhiy Popko, commander of the military administration in the Ukrainian capital.
The vast majority of hostile targets in Kyiv's airspace, according to early reports, were found and eliminated, he continued.
Six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, about which Russia has previously stated that no air defense system in the world could destroy them, were among those mentioned by Gen. Zaluzhny. The Ukrainian assertion cannot be independently verified by the BBC.
Weapons with a top speed of five times the speed of sound are considered hypersonic. They travel at low altitudes, outside the line of sight of ground-based radars, and can maneuver while in flight, making them more difficult to defend against.
Ukraine said it had shot down a Kinzhal for the first time last week during an earlier attack on Kyiv.
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