In a large-scale overnight aerial assault targeting multiple Ukrainian regions early Saturday, at least 10 people including one child were wounded in strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service has confirmed. The attack, which combined missiles and a large fleet of attack drones, sparked multiple fires and structural damage across three districts of the Ukrainian capital.
Local emergency responders confirmed reports of explosions and fire outbreaks across Kyiv’s Solomianskyi, Darnytskyi, and Dniprovskyi districts in an official update posted to the Telegram messaging platform. In Solomianskyi, a direct strike on a three-story mixed office and warehouse building triggered an extensive blaze, while a separate warehouse in Dniprovskyi district also ignited after being hit by incoming ordnance.
According to statements from Ukraine’s Air Force, the Russian assault involved a total of 10 missiles of multiple variants, including six short-range ballistic missiles, alongside 121 Iranian-made Shahed-style attack drones deployed across Ukrainian territory. Ukrainian air defense crews managed to intercept or electronically disable all but 10 of the incoming weapons, shooting down two missiles and 111 drones before they could reach their intended targets.
Ukrainian military officials confirmed that direct impacts from surviving Russian weapons were recorded at 11 locations across the country, from ballistic missiles, two guided air-to-surface missiles, and seven attack drones. Debris from intercepted Russian weapons also caused damage and disruptions at three additional locations, emergency teams added.
On the Russian side, the country’s Defense Ministry claimed the assault was deliberately targeted at Ukrainian drone production infrastructure in Kyiv, as well as port facilities in the southern Ukrainian cities of Izmail and Chornomorsk, located in Odesa region near the Danube River and Black Sea respectively.
The Russian ministry also issued its own separate account of overnight hostilities, stating that Russian air defense systems destroyed 178 Ukrainian drones launched across eight Russian regions, the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, and the adjacent Black and Azov seas.