An evening drone strike on the closed Southern Bridge was the latest in a series of attacks since Thursday that forced the full or partial suspension of traffic across it and two other bridges spanning the vast Dnipro River.

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Long traffic jams snaked through the city in the morning and evening as residents struggled to adapt to the almost constant Russian drone attacks on Kyiv in recent ​weeks.

"We don't know what the Russians are thinking over there, or what they'll come up with," said 51-year-old Larysa, speaking to Reuters on a city bus. "What will ​happen on Monday is anyone's guess."

Before the latest attack on the bridge, Mayor Vitali Klitschko held a city security council meeting to assess ⁠the risks, describing the situation in the city as "very dramatic".

Over a third of the capital's 3 million residents lived on the east, or "left", bank of the Dnipro before Russia's ​2022 invasion, but the vast majority work on the western, or "right", bank where most government institutions and companies are.