A fresh wave of Russian drone attacks struck Kyiv overnight, leaving at least two people dead and 11 others injured, according to local officials. Among the victims was a one-year-old baby, whose body rescuers pulled from the rubble of a shattered residential building. A young woman also lost her life in the assault.
The overnight barrage once again turned Ukraine’s capital into a battlefield of fire and smoke. Multi-story apartment blocks in the western Svyatoshynkyi and southeastern Darnytskyi districts were hit directly, sending flames climbing through the night sky and forcing residents into shelters. Witnesses described multiple explosions across the city, including at least one blast in the city center.
“The Russians are deliberately targeting civilian areas,” said Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration. He urged residents to remain in shelters as rescue crews worked through the wreckage.
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The strikes extended beyond Kyiv. In Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky, three infrastructure facilities were struck, underscoring Moscow’s widening campaign against both civilians and critical systems. Air raid sirens echoed across all regions of Ukraine as drones and cruise missiles rained down.
Moscow has yet to issue a comment on the attacks. But the strikes came just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Western security proposals tied to a potential ceasefire. At a Paris summit earlier in the week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that 26 of Ukraine’s allies had pledged to deploy forces—“by land, sea or air”—to provide security should fighting pause. Putin swiftly rejected the plan, warning that any such troops would be treated as “legitimate targets.”
The attack, with its devastating toll on civilians, underscores the grinding brutality of a war that has now stretched into its third year. Since launching the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has entrenched control over about 20 percent of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea, annexed in 2014.
For Kyiv’s residents, however, the war is not measured in maps or percentages, but in shattered homes and stolen lives. The image of a baby pulled lifeless from the ruins crystallizes the human cost of a conflict that continues to defy diplomatic resolution.