KYIV, Ukraine — A large-scale combined assault featuring drones and ballistic missiles targeting Ukraine’s capital city unfolded in the early hours of Thursday, marking the second attack on Kyiv within a single day and leaving multiple people injured and massive residential infrastructure destroyed, local Ukrainian officials confirmed.\n\nTymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s Military Administration, released preliminary details confirming that damage from the strikes was documented across six of the capital’s administrative districts. The assault damaged both private residential properties and key civilian infrastructure, he said, confirming that Russian forces used a mix of ballistic missiles and Iranian-designed Shahed drones in the coordinated attack.\n\nOne of the most severe incidents took place in Kyiv’s Darnytsia district, where a multi-story apartment building suffered a partial collapse that split the entire structure into two sections. Multiple residents were trapped under fallen concrete and debris following the blast. Ukraine’s national Emergency Service confirmed that first responders had pulled at least 10 survivors from the rubble by mid-morning. On-site footage and reporting showed rescue crews continuing to comb through the smoldering wreckage hours after the strike, searching for any additional trapped survivors.\n\nIn the capital’s Dnieper district, Tkachenko added, a rogue drone struck the roof of a five-story residential building, and a second residential structure in the adjacent Dniprovskyi district also sustained significant damage. Loud explosion sounds echoed across all neighborhoods of Kyiv from the early onset of the assault just after midnight.\n\nThe overnight attack came just hours after an unusually large, rare daytime strike on Kyiv that killed at least six civilians, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy noted that the daytime assault involved more than 800 drones deployed by Russian forces, and that the hours-long attack was deliberately intended to inflict maximum civilian harm. “The goal of this terror is to create as much pain and grief as possible for our people,” Zelenskyy stated in a post-strike address.