One man was killed and three other people were injured in Kyiv early yesterday as Russia staged its biggest missile and drone attack on Ukraine in nearly a month.
Fires broke out and residential and other structures were damaged in the districts of Darnytsya, Obolon and Solomyansky.
Civilian infrastructure also was damaged in towns near Kyiv and in the regions of Sumy, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, and Mykolaiv.
The attack involved 23 missiles and 109 drones, according to Ukrainian officials.
Twenty people were killed, including nine children, in a missile attack on the central city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday evening. Shrapnel sprayed across a residential area, accounting for one of the highest death tolls in a Russian air attack of the war.
The city of 600,000 has suffered regular Russian missile and drone attacks. It is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky and is located some 25 miles from the southern segment of the Dnipro River, with Russian occupation forces on the opposite bank.
There are nightly Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns, some of them hundreds of miles from the front line in the war in the south and east of the country.
Moscow recently has been using less missiles as it builds up stocks for future air attacks and diplomatically deflects the Trump administration’s ceasefire initiatives.
It is unclear if the Trump administration will send additional US military aid to Ukraine, raising the prospect of the crucial Patriot air-defense batteries that protect Kyiv running out of interceptor missiles in coming months.
Russian air attacks systematically have targeted the electricity grid, forcing Ukrainian authorities to implement rolling blackouts.
Personnel should avoid Ukraine entirely.
