In a sustained escalation of air attacks targeting Ukrainian population centers, Russia launched another massive overnight aerial barrage that extended into Tuesday morning, leaving at least 11 civilians dead and more than 10 others injured, three of whom are children, according to local Ukrainian officials. The coordinated assault, which began at 6 p.m. Monday, marked the sixth straight day of targeted strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, part of an unbroken, multi-day campaign of air raids that first launched last week. Ukrainian Air Force officials reported that Russia deployed a wide arsenal of weaponry for the attack, including ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, anti-radar missiles, 218 attack drones and decoy aerial devices. Roughly one-third of the drones deployed were powered by jet engines, a faster and more lethal platform that has become increasingly common in recent Russian strikes, officials added. Primary targets for the latest assault were concentrated in the Kyiv and Odesa regions, the Ukrainian Air Force confirmed in an official statement posted to Telegram. The unrelenting pace of attacks has left Kyiv and its civilian population trapped in prolonged danger and daily disruption, with strikes occurring around the clock across both daytime and overnight hours, and air raid alerts remaining active at a near-constant rate across the capital. The latest barrage hit civilian infrastructure and residential properties across multiple districts of Kyiv. Eight fatalities were recorded within Kyiv city limits, while three additional deaths occurred in surrounding areas of the Kyiv region. Seven of the capital’s deaths were concentrated in the Darnytskyi district, where emergency services confirmed one person was critically wounded and admitted to a local hospital. At a second impact site in the same district, an explosion left two people injured, one of them a child. An eighth fatality was recorded in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, where a non-residential building was struck and ignited a large blaze, emergency services said. In the Solomianskyi district, a drone strike hit a multi-unit residential building, causing extensive structural damage. First responders managed to rescue one man and extract a woman who had been trapped under fallen rubble after the strike. Across the broader Kyiv region, outside the capital’s city boundaries, three people were killed and 12 others were injured. In the Kyiv suburb of Boryspil, which hosts one of Ukraine’s largest international airports, the strike left three vehicles engulfed in flames and damaged a local infrastructure facility, where a truck also caught fire. Emergency teams evacuated 48 local residents and pulled two people alive from collapsed rubble. Eight people in Boryspil suffered injuries, including two children. Two people were killed at the damaged infrastructure site, while one additional fatality was recorded at a damaged local service station in the city. Further south, the Odesa region also suffered a major Russian overnight attack that damaged multiple pieces of civilian infrastructure and left one person wounded, according to regional governor Oleh Kiper. Two residential buildings suffered damage, and a large fire broke out at a local sewing factory in the strikes. Russian forces also targeted the Orlivka international ferry crossing, which connects Ukraine to neighboring Romania on the Black Sea coast, Kiper confirmed. For their part, Ukrainian air defense forces announced that they successfully intercepted and neutralized 199 aerial targets launched in the assault, including five ballistic missiles and 187 drones. Ukrainian military officials noted that missile and drone impact sites were recorded across 28 Ukrainian locations, while debris from downed Russian weapons fell across 10 additional sites that were not directly targeted. This ongoing coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict can be found in full at the Associated Press’ dedicated conflict hub.
Russian barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine’s capital region kills at least 11
