Overview
- Ukrainian officials reported a large-scale assault on Kyiv on Monday that involved 68 missiles and 351 drones and killed at least 11–14 civilians while leaving dozens more injured and several apartment blocks damaged.
- Air‑defence units shot down large numbers of cruise missiles and drones but failed to stop ballistic and hypersonic projectiles, which Ukraine and its leaders blamed on an acute shortfall of Patriot PAC‑2/PAC‑3 interceptor missiles.
- Rescue teams carried out searches in heavily hit residential districts including Podilskyi and Darnytskyi as authorities reported collapsed or badly damaged multistory apartment buildings and ongoing evacuations for unexploded ordnance risks.
- The day before Kyiv’s strike, Ukrainian forces said they hit a Pokrovsk neighbourhood used to train Russian UAV crews and instructors from the Rubicon centre, and Kyiv also reported long‑range strikes on Russian energy and port infrastructure that caused power outages in occupied Crimea.
- The bombardment comes just ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara where President Zelenskyy will press allies for immediate interceptor deliveries and wider production and licence measures, a demand sharpened by constrained global output of Patriot missiles.