Russian forces launched one of the largest combined missile and drone barrages of the full-scale war overnight on Sunday, hitting residential and infrastructure targets across Kyiv and the surrounding region. Ukraine’s air force said it tracked 90 missiles and roughly 600 drones during an attack that lasted several hours; air-raid sirens were active in the capital for more than seven hours.
At least four people were killed and more than 80 wounded, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sunday morning. About 30 residential buildings in the capital were damaged or destroyed, with debris recorded at 40 separate sites across every district of the city. Emergency services pulled survivors from collapsed sections of apartment blocks in the Solomianskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts into the afternoon.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Russia used an Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile in the attack — only the third time the weapon has been deployed in combat — and said it struck Bila Tserkva, a city of about 200,000 people some 80 kilometres south of Kyiv. The Oreshnik travels at hypersonic speed and can carry a nuclear warhead, though its operational use to date has involved conventional payloads.
Zelenskyy called for "consequences" from Ukraine’s Western partners and reiterated his demand for additional Patriot interceptor batteries. Ukrainian officials said the air force shot down or jammed the large majority of the incoming drones but acknowledged that the volume of weapons fired exceeded the capacity of the country’s integrated air defences.
The strike came as Trump’s negotiators worked on a separate ceasefire framework with Iran, drawing attention away from the European front of the conflict. The Kremlin offered no immediate justification for the scale of the attack; Russian commentators said it was timed to disrupt European discussions of a new tranche of military aid scheduled for later this month.
European leaders responded sharply. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz issued a joint statement on Sunday afternoon condemning the strike and pledging to accelerate deliveries of air-defence equipment already in the pipeline. The European Commission said it would bring forward a vote on the next instalment of the Ukraine Facility funding programme.
For Kyiv residents, the attack was the heaviest single night since the spring of 2024. Several apartment blocks in the Obolon and Pechersk districts lost power for most of Sunday, and the metro extended overnight shelter hours through the following day. The city said it would distribute emergency repair vouchers within 72 hours to households whose windows or balconies were destroyed.
Ukraine’s general staff reported that Russian forces also pressed offensive operations in the east during the same window, with concentrated attacks around Pokrovsk and Lyman in the Donetsk region. Casualties at the front were not disclosed; satellite imagery analysed by open-source researchers showed renewed Russian armour movements east of Kostiantynivka.