Four dead in Russian overnight assault on Kyiv

The aggressor targeted various districts of the capital with strike drones and missiles of different types.

In the Podilskyi district, a strike hit a high-rise on the 15th floor; in the Sviatoshynskyi district, it struck the seventh floor; and in the Obolonskyi, a nine-story building was hit, igniting fires in apartments from the seventh to ninth floors.

In the Dniprovskyi district, drone debris struck a five-story building, damaging a lower floor and setting two apartments ablaze. Fires were also reported in at least five other homes. Rescuers evacuated more than 40 people from the affected high-rises.

Additional damage included destruction to an administrative building, fires at a school site and wooden structures at a sports base. Sections of heating networks were damaged, temporarily cutting heat to parts of buildings in the Desnianskyi district.

The death toll in the capital amounted to four, with 27 residents injured, including children aged 7 and 10. 15 people were hospitalized, including a pregnant woman.

Russian forces also hammered the broader Kyiv Oblast, striking critical infrastructure sites. Six people were hurt there. In the city of Bila Tserkva, a 55-year-old man was hospitalized with thermal burns.

Elsewhere in the region, a 40-year-old man suffered multiple shoulder wounds; a 47-year-old man had a forearm laceration; a 7-year-old child sustained facial injuries; a 56-year-old man had a contusion to the forehead; and a 56-year-old woman received hand lacerations.

Private homes caught fire in the Bucha, Vyshhorod and Fastiv districts; warehouse buildings burned in the Bila Tserka district; and a passenger car was set ablaze in the Obukhiv district.