Ukrainian officials said that Russia carried out a large-scale attack using drones and missiles on Kyiv early Friday, causing fires and scattering debris across several districts of the capital. Ukrainian authorities announced that four people were killed and dozens injured in the attacks.
According to officials, falling debris and fires damaged high-rise residential buildings, a school, a medical facility, and administrative buildings in various parts of Kyiv, a city home to about three million people. Tymur Tkachенко, head of Kyiv’s military administration, wrote on Telegram that “the Russians are targeting residential buildings,” noting that many multi-story buildings across nearly every district were affected.
Tkachенко added that the heating system in Kyiv was also damaged, cutting service in one neighborhood, and warned of possible electricity and water outages.
In Zaporizhzhia, the regional governor reported that four people were killed in intense Russian shelling on the area.
Ukrainian drones
Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it had shot down more than 200 Ukrainian drones overnight. The ministry stated on Telegram that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 216 drones, including 66 over Krasnodar and 45 over Saratov in southern Russia.
Russian officials said the drones caused damage to a ship, residential buildings, and an oil depot in the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. Three crew members were injured and are receiving treatment in the hospital.
The operations command in Krasnodar added that drone fragments hit at least four apartments, shattering windows but causing no injuries. A fire also broke out in an oil depot within a shipping complex before emergency teams extinguished it. Some coastal buildings were damaged as well, with no further details provided.
Russia continues its offensive launched in 2022, advancing in eastern Ukraine, especially in Donetsk, where most of the recent fighting has been concentrated. At the same time, Moscow has intensified strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, energy facilities, and rail networks as winter approaches. Meanwhile, Ukrainian drone attacks have caused damage to Russia’s oil and gas sectors and hydrocarbon transport pipelines, contributing to rising fuel prices.
