Russia Attack On Ukraine Leaves Four Dead And Dozens Injured

A large-scale Russian missile and drone assault on Ukraine has killed at least four people and injured dozens more, with Kyiv suffering some of the heaviest damage in recent months. Ukrainian officials said Russia launched around 90 missiles and 600 drones overnight in one of the biggest aerial attacks of the war this year.

The strikes hit residential buildings, schools, markets, water infrastructure, and commercial areas across Kyiv and surrounding regions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said about 100 people were injured nationwide, while emergency crews battled fires and searched damaged buildings for survivors.

Russia reportedly used its Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile during the assault, marking another rare deployment of the nuclear-capable weapon. Ukrainian officials said the missile struck the city of Bila Tserkva south of Kyiv.

Moscow said the bombardment was retaliation for a Ukrainian drone attack on a student dormitory in Russian-controlled Luhansk that Russia says killed civilians. Ukraine denies deliberately targeting civilians and says it struck a military drone command facility.

The attacks come as peace negotiations remain stalled and international concern grows over further escalation. European leaders condemned the strikes, while NATO countries reportedly increased air-defense readiness near the alliance’s eastern borders.

Both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned the reported use of the weapon, while EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas described it as a “political scare-tactic and reckless nuclear-brinkmanship”.

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper lamented the “awful scenes” in Kyiv and vowed to “keep up pressure on Russia”.

Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv’s mayor, said two people had been killed in the capital and 56 wounded, while the head of the surrounding Kyiv region said two people had also been killed there, and nine wounded, based on preliminary estimates.

Klitschko said damage had been recorded in every district of Kyiv, adding that an attack on a school had started a fire and another on a business centre led to people being trapped in a shelter.

Svitlana Onofryichuk, a Kyiv resident who had worked for 22 years in the market that was hit, told the Associated Press: “It was a terrible night and there has never been anything like it in the entire war.