Kyiv (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Ukrainian officials reported that Russian drone and missile attacks in and around Kyiv overnight left seven people dead, injured dozens, caused fires in residential areas, and damaged the entrance to a metro station’s bomb shelter on Monday.
Recently, Moscow has intensified drone and missile attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. This comes as talks to end the war, which started with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, have shown little progress.
How many civilians were killed in the attacks?
Around six people were killed in Kyiv’s busy Shevchenkivskyi district, where a whole section of a residential high-rise building was destroyed, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, on Telegram. He also said that four children were among the 25 people injured in the attack.
“The Russians’ style is unchanged – to hit where there may be people,”
Tkachenko expressed.
“Residential buildings, exits from shelters – this is the Russian style.”
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko stated that people may still be trapped under the rubble after the overnight attacks damaged six out of the city’s 10 districts.
What damage did the attack cause to the infrastructure?
Ukraine’s air force reported that it shot down 339 of the 352 drones and 15 of the 16 missiles launched by Russia during the attack on four Ukrainian regions.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said rescuers were leading people to safety from buildings and structures on fire in the dark. An entrance to the metro station in Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district was also damaged, along with an adjacent bus stop, officials said. Kyiv’s deep metro stations have been used throughout the war as some of the city’s safest bomb shelters.
How does this compare to previous Kyiv assaults?
Last week, Russia carried out one of its deadliest strikes on Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, unleashing an enormous number of drones and missiles in an attack against Ukraine’s capital. It is significant for both the number of attacks and civilian casualties. It took place on the night of June 17, 2025; the Russian forces released hundreds of missiles and drones onto Kyiv, in the exact direction they had just departed.
According to the commander of the Air Force of Ukraine, a total of 472 aerial weapons were involved, including about 280 Shahed-type attack drones and two Kinzhal missiles, and they mainly came to Kyiv.
