Russian Missile and Drone Attacks Kill Eight in Ukraine, Officials Say

Eight Killed in Russian Missile and Drone Barrage Across Ukraine

“Ukraine has once again been hit by Russian missiles throughout the night,” Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, said on the Telegram app as a heavy Russian air assault killed at least eight people, according to Ukrainian authorities.

The Ukrainian air force reported that Moscow launched 130 drones, 48 cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles in the sweeping assault. Air defense units successfully downed 161 of the incoming targets. Kyiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv absorbed the primary focus of the aerial attacks. Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry stated its forces carried out a massive strike using high-precision weapons against military-industrial facilities, specifically targeting sites associated with Ukrainian defense company Fire Point.

Residential Apartment Block Hit in Pryluki

The human toll proved severe in northern Ukraine. In Pryluki, located within the Chernihiv region, a Russian missile slammed directly into a five-storey residential building. Regional authorities confirmed that four people died on the spot, while 20 others sustained injuries. Local rescue teams pulled residents from beneath the wreckage, and officials warned that additional people might remain buried under the rubble.

Farther south, additional casualties mounted. Two people died in the capital city of Kyiv, and another two lost their lives in the central Poltava region. Overnight air strikes in Dnipro damaged an industrial facility, transport infrastructure suffered impacts in Zaporizhzhia, and apartment buildings sustained damage in Kremenchuk, according to regional officials posting on Telegram.

Underground Metro Shelters Fill as Ballistic Missiles Target Kyiv

Sirens pierced the night across Kyiv, prompting residents to seek shelter in deep underground metro stations. Several loud explosions echoed through the capital as ballistic missiles joined the drone onslaught. Lesia, a 49-year-old Kyiv resident sheltering underground, described the necessity of the subterranean refuge:

The metro is better, because we live on the ninth floor of a high-rise, and it’s really scary when you’re on the ninth floor and missiles are flying at you.

Russian military authorities asserted that their targets included locations where Fire Point manufactures and stores Flamingo cruise missiles and medium- and long-range drones. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the previous week that Ukraine had fired its first domestically made ballistic missile in combat, produced by the same company, with a longer-range FP-9 missile anticipated by the autumn.

Another sleepless night, another act of terror, after which people still have to plan their working day despite everything.

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