A Russian strike during the night against kyiv killed 14 people and wounded more than 100, local officials said in the Ukrainian capital on Early Tuesday, when Moscow launched hundreds of drones and missiles into the country.
It was not clear immediately if others can be trapped under the rubble, said Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, in an update on the telegram messaging application.
Emergency staff worked in several places, including a residential building in the Solomianskyi district, where “a complete entrance collapsed,” Klitschko said. The mayor published a video on Telegram that shows what he said that Russian cluster ammunition found in one of the impact sites in the capital.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the national attack consisted of more than 440 drones and 32 missiles. At least 15 people were killed, said the president. kyiv took the worst part of the strikes, Zelenskyy wrote, with impacts also reported in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovahrad and Mykolaiv.
At least one person died in Odesa and 17 other wounds, according to a telegram post by local governor Oleg Kiper.
Ukrainian rescuers do a very damaged search and residential building work after the Russian missile strike in kyiv on June 17, 2025 in the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Genya Savilov/AFP through Getty Images
“Such attacks are pure terrorism,” Zelenskyy wrote in Telegram. “And the whole world, the United States and Europe finally react the way in which a civilized society reacts to terrorists.”
“Putin is doing this only because it can afford to continue the war,” he continued. “He wants war to continue. It is bad when the powerful of this world turns to this. We are contacting all partners at all possible levels so that there is an appropriate response. It is the terrorists who should feel the pain, not normal and peaceful people.”
This is a development story. Consult the updates again.
