Overview
- Ukrainian officials say Russia launched a combined rocket and kamikaze‑drone assault that focused on Kyiv, with air‑defense forces reporting they intercepted roughly 50 rockets and about 582 drones during the overnight Sunday–Monday attack.
- The strike caused large fires and damage across Kyiv, including to the Uspensky (Assumption) Cathedral at the Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra, the Mistectkyi Arsenal museum complex, and the Dovzhenko film studio where Ukraine says the largest historic costume collection was destroyed.
- The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) presented wreckage it says identifies a Geran‑2/Shahed‑type kamikaze drone as the weapon that struck the Lavra, and investigators are documenting damage as potential war crimes.
- Civilian and responder losses were reported across multiple cities with Ukrainian leaders saying the overnight strikes killed 11 people nationwide and wounded 53, and rescue teams in Kharkiv suffered multiple fatalities after repeat strikes on working sites.
- Kyiv has launched UNESCO and legal procedures and is pressing G7 and EU partners to speed delivery of long‑range and anti‑ballistic air‑defense capabilities, a demand framed as urgent by officials given nearly 2,000 cultural sites reported damaged since 2022.