Massive Russian attack on Kyiv with missiles and drones

Ukraine war

Massive Russian attack on Kyiv with missiles and drones

Moscow is massively attacking the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. There are also fears that Russia may have deployed a particularly feared new medium-range missile.

Russia has massively attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force also explicitly warned on the Telegram platform that night of a possible Russian attack with the particularly feared new Oreshnik medium-range missile.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Telegram that several buildings were hit, including high-rise buildings and a school. There were nine injured, five of whom were taken to hospitals, he wrote in the early hours of the morning. He called on the residents of the city of over a million people to remain in their shelters.

The Kyiv Independent portal spoke of “a series of explosions” in the capital. According to initially unconfirmed reports, Russia also used hypersonic missiles and cruise missiles in the attack. The Times of Ukraine portal reported on Telegram about numerous fires in the city, including one near the government district.

Other parts of Ukraine were also attacked. The full extent of the Russian attack wave and its consequences were not immediately foreseeable that night.

In the western neighboring country of Poland, the military announced on Platform In Poland, the air defense is repeatedly alerted during major attacks in Ukraine, and sometimes fighter jets from NATO partners also take off.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously warned on Saturday evening that an Oreshnik attack was to be expected. Kyiv is also in danger, he said, citing intelligence findings. He warned of a possible combined Russian attack with various types of weapons and called on citizens to go to shelters if there was an air raid.

It initially remained unclear whether Russia actually used an Oreshnik medium-range missile in the new attack on Kiev that night.

Russia has already used the ballistic missile with particularly high destructive power twice in its war of aggression against Ukraine – once in the large city of Dnipro in the southeast of the country without warheads and most recently in January in western Ukraine.