Russia Strikes Kyiv in Overnight Missile and Drone Attack, People Feared Trapped Under Rubble

Russian forces struck Kyiv in a combined missile and drone attack in the early hours of Tuesday, damaging residential buildings, causing fires and leaving parts of the capital without power.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram post that power outages were reported in three districts of the capital: Podilskyi, Obolonskyi and Sviatoshynskyi.

The attack caused damage across several areas of the city, with debris and possible missile strikes reported at residential buildings, non-residential sites and a gas station.

Residential buildings hit

According to Klitschko, a nine-story residential building in the Podilskyi district was hit again, causing structural collapse.

“People may be under the rubble. Preliminary reports indicate one injured person,” Klitschko said.

He later said two people had been hospitalized.

In the Shevchenkivskyi district, a missile likely hit a 24-story residential building, causing a fire on the fourth and fifth floors, Klitschko said.

In the Solomianskyi district, the upper floors of a 15-story residential building were damaged in the attack.

Fires, falling debris and power outages

Timur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said non-residential buildings were burning in the Podilskyi district.

In the same district, cars were also on fire, while at another location missile debris fell on the roof of a building, causing a fire and blowing out windows.

In the Obolonskyi district, debris from a drone fell near a kindergarten. At another location in the district, a fire broke out on the territory of an unfinished construction site.

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Authorities urged residents to remain in shelters as the attack continued.

Wider attack across Ukraine

The strike on Kyiv came as Russia launched a broader overnight missile and drone attack across Ukraine.

Earlier, Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russian forces had launched Kalibr cruise missiles toward Ukraine from the Caspian Sea. The military estimated that the missiles could enter Ukrainian airspace around 2 a.m. and urged residents not to ignore air raid alerts.

Air raid warnings were later declared in Kyiv and a number of regions because of the threat of Russian ballistic weapons and drones.

Ukraine’s Air Force warned of ballistic threats from the east and northeast, groups of drones moving across multiple regions, missile attacks on Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, and cruise missile launches.

The Kyiv City Military Administration also reported enemy drones in Ukrainian airspace, activity by Russian strategic aviation and launches of cruise missiles from enemy ships.

Kharkiv and Dnipro also hit

Russian forces also struck Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine and Dnipro in central-eastern Ukraine overnight, injuring civilians and damaging buildings.

In Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Russian forces attacked two districts of the city. An enemy drone hit an industrial zone in the Osnovianskyi district, while another strike was recorded in the Slobidskyi district.

“As a result of the shelling of the Osnovianskyi district, there are casualties – their number and condition are being clarified. There is a fire at the site of the strike in the district,” Terekhov said.

In Dnipro, Russian forces partially destroyed a two-story building and caused a fire, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration.

One civilian, a 73-year-old woman, was injured in the attack and hospitalized in serious condition.

Zelensky had warned of new massive strike

The latest attack came after President Volodymyr Zelensky said intelligence warnings about possible Russian strikes remained in force and that Moscow was preparing another massive attack.

He also stressed that strengthening Ukraine’s air defenses and securing more interceptors remained one of Kyiv’s top priorities.

The overnight strikes follow a well-documented pattern of escalation. Russia has repeatedly launched combined missile and drone attacks against Ukrainian cities, energy infrastructure, and civilian areas, considered war crimes under international humanitarian law.