An overnight Russian aerial offensive across Ukraine left at least 23 people dead and 130 wounded, Ukrainian authorities reported. Kyiv, Dnipro and numerous other regions came under attack in a barrage involving 656 unmanned attack aircraft and 73 missiles.
Casualties were concentrated in the capital and Dnipro. Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported seven fatalities and 90 injured residents, 51 of whom remained in medical facilities. Two children were among those still receiving hospital treatment. Residential and business properties in multiple city districts suffered damage.
Dnipro’s reported losses were 16 dead and 42 wounded. The fatalities included two children and an emergency responder. A partially collapsed four-level residential block was among the damaged sites. Regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said rescuers found an eight-year-old boy and another child, born in 2023, beneath debris.
Ukraine’s emergency service named the dead responder as civilian-protection major Anton Yarmolenko. According to the agency’s account, he deployed to help at the location of an earlier impact before another strike hit.
The national Air Force described a mixed arsenal of ballistic, cruise and hypersonic weapons alongside the drones. Its tally said Ukrainian defences stopped 602 drones and 40 missiles. The service recorded impacts by 30 ballistic weapons, three cruise missiles and 33 drones across 38 sites. Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat also reported the use of eight Zircon anti-ship missiles, fired as two sets of four.
More than 500 emergency workers participated in operations around the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. He appealed for additional allied supplies of systems capable of intercepting ballistic weapons, specifically mentioning Patriot interceptors. He later advised Ukrainians to observe air-alert warnings because intelligence suggested another major assault could occur.
Damage in Kyiv extended across several districts. Residents attributed harm to a nine-floor apartment building in Podilskyi to a blast wave after debris landed nearby. Reports from Solomianskyi covered damage to taller residential blocks. Near a kindergarten in Obolonskyi, falling drone fragments started a blaze at a building site. Debris ignited further fires at filling stations and a commercial property elsewhere in the capital.
Outside Kyiv and Dnipro, Zelensky reported attacks affecting energy facilities in the Kharkiv region and essential infrastructure inside Kharkiv city. Sites were also struck in the regions of Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv. Poland activated domestic and allied aircraft as a precaution for its airspace.
Zelensky said Russia sent roughly 100 more drones later that day. He said current Ukrainian air-defence stocks could not intercept many incoming missiles.
Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov accused Russia of employing cluster munitions to maximise harm to residents and response crews. The available reporting did not independently verify that allegation.
The combined official fatality count reflected seven deaths in Kyiv plus 16 in Dnipro. The geographic reach, extensive weapon totals and continued daytime drone activity produced a nationwide emergency response and another Ukrainian request for stronger protective systems.
