A Russian missile and drone barrage struck Ukraine’s capital overnight, killing at least six people, including a six-year-old boy, and injuring dozens more, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.
The widespread attack damaged 27 sites across four districts in Kyiv, according to the city’s military administrator, Tymur Tkachenko. “Entire residential buildings have been destroyed. The scale of devastation is massive,” he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted footage of smoldering rubble, saying rescue workers were still searching for survivors beneath the wreckage of a collapsed residential block. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha echoed the outrage on social media, calling it a “horrible morning in Kyiv.”
“The brutal Russian strikes destroyed entire residential buildings and damaged schools and hospitals,” Sybiha wrote on X, alongside an image of a bombed apartment complex.
Russia has increasingly targeted cities far from the front line of the war, now entering its fourth year, despite denying it deliberately attacks civilians. Thursday’s assault is one of the deadliest on Kyiv in recent weeks.
The strike comes amid rising international tension. U.S. President Donald Trump, signaling growing impatience with Russian President Vladimir Putin, reportedly shortened a deadline this week for Moscow to propose a peace plan.
“President Trump has been very generous and very patient with Putin, trying to find a solution,” Sybiha noted. “Putin does it on purpose.”
Ukrainian authorities and international observers have condemned the attack as part of a deliberate campaign to terrorize civilians and cripple essential infrastructure. Rescue operations continue as Kyiv reels from the latest wave of destruction.
Written By Rodney Mbua
