Overview
- Early Tuesday, Russian forces launched a heavy missile and drone attack on Kyiv that caused partial collapses of residential blocks, fires, power outages and people feared trapped under rubble.
- Officials said the overnight strikes killed at least four people and wounded dozens across Ukraine, with reported damage in Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv and multiple districts left without electricity.
- Reciprocal strikes were reported on both sides, including a Ukrainian drone strike that killed one person in Russia’s Kursk region and a Ukrainian-attributed attack in Genichesk, Kherson Region, that Russian authorities said killed a child and injured 11.
- Local authorities set up temporary shelters, cancelled public events in affected areas and urged civilians to heed air alerts while emergency teams worked to restore utilities and search for survivors.
- The attacks follow public warnings from Moscow that it would begin “systematic strikes” and President Zelensky’s warning of a possible “massive” strike, increasing pressure on Kyiv’s allies to provide long-range air-defence systems such as Patriot.