Russian missile and drone attacks killed seven people and injured 21 in Kyiv, while Russian authorities reported that a Ukrainian attack killed three and wounded 10 in the Rostov region. The reciprocal violence unfolded as a fresh round of US-brokered peace discussions began in Abu Dhabi.
Ukraine said Russia launched 22 missiles and 464 drones in an overnight assault focused mainly on Kyiv, the surrounding area and energy infrastructure. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the missile total included four Kinzhal hypersonic weapons. Explosions were reported in two waves, shortly after 1 a.m. and again around 7 a.m.
In Kyiv's western Sviatoshynskyi district, an attack near a warehouse killed four people and injured three. The Novus supermarket chain said the dead were drivers after its warehouse was destroyed. In the Dniprovskyi district, two people were killed and five injured when a nine-storey residential building was hit. One of those reported killed in the capital was Vadym Tupchiy, a 65-year-old actor, musician and set builder.
Authorities recorded 13 reports of damage from attacks or falling debris. A 22-storey apartment building in the Pechersk district was among the sites affected, with four floors burned. Emergency power cuts were introduced in the capital, and heat supplies were disrupted across large areas while crews began clearing damage.
The assault reached beyond Kyiv. Explosions were also heard in the Dnipro, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Cherkasy regions. Zelenskyy said four drones crossed into Moldovan and Romanian airspace. Romania's defense ministry said it deployed four fighter aircraft to track two drones early in the morning.
The available report from the Russian side gave a more limited picture, stating that three people were killed and 10 injured in the Rostov region. The supplied evidence did not specify the targets, weapons or exact location of those casualties, so those details remained unconfirmed in this account.
Meanwhile, US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll traveled to the United Arab Emirates for contacts with Russian and Ukrainian delegations. The Ukrainian team was reported to be led by Kyrylo Budanov. Zelenskyy urged Ukraine's partners to combine diplomacy with continued military aid and sanctions pressure, arguing that negotiations should not weaken Kyiv.
The timing underscored the distance between diplomatic activity and conditions on the ground. Even as representatives explored a negotiated path, large-scale attacks caused civilian deaths, damaged housing and infrastructure and disrupted basic services on both sides of the conflict. Kyiv officials described the attack as a deliberate strike on civilian infrastructure and housing. Russia's account of the Rostov casualties, meanwhile, stood as a separate official claim in the supplied coverage. Neither the negotiations nor statements from either government produced an immediate halt to the overnight exchange.
