Russian forces unleashed a combined drone and missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday, killing three people, while two other attacks in the country's south killed three more, officials said.
In Kyiv, explosions boomed across the pre-dawn sky as air defenses activated against the attack, which also wounded three others, according to city military administration chief Timur Tkachenko.
A shopping mall, business centre, metro station and water pipe were damaged in the assault, he said.
"Russian forces initially launched drones and then a ballistic-missile strike," parliamentary ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on social media. "These acts merely underscore the enemy's ruthlessness and barbarity."
Rescue workers plodded through a flooded street as they sifted through debris. The charred remains of a van were visible in front of the station, whose facade was marked by twisted metal and blown-out windows.
As daylight broke, they could be seen examining missile fragments and loading a body bag into a truck.
Air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian media that both missiles aimed at Kyiv were destroyed, but that one of them was shot down at a low altitude, resulting in heavy damage.
There was no immediate comment from Moscow, which has denied deliberately targeting civilians.
Another Russian missile attack killed one person and wounded 11 in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.
The governor of the adjacent southern region of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, said Russian shelling killed two people in a town north of the regional centre, also called Kherson.
The Ukrainian military said it had destroyed 24 of 39 drones and two of four missiles launched by Russia across various parts of Ukraine during the overnight attack.
On Friday, a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, killed five people and partially destroyed an educational facility, officials said. One woman wounded in the attack died in hospital on Saturday.
"All those who assist the Russian state in this war must face pressure as impactful as these strikes," Zelenskyy wrote on social media in response to Saturday's attack.
Russia has carried out regular air strikes on towns and cities far behind the front line since the start of its almost three-year-old invasion of Ukraine, targeting critical infrastructure in particular.
© Thomson Reuters 2025.
36 Comments
Underworld
A shopping mall, business centre, metro station and water pipe were damaged in the assault, he said.
More war crimes from Russia.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Just more disgusting behavior by the terrorists.
Fos
And yet the media legacy linked with Washington trying to still justify their erroneous choice to initiate this war, and having to face the complete failure of the whole process (apart of course from the huge earnings of the American weapons producers and the warlords in Wall Street who are pushing the administration to incite more violence).
The common knowledge is that the great illusion of victory over Russia has dragged Kyiv and Europe into the abyss. Sanctions and military aid have not worked. Putin, whether you like or not, has time on his side and is waiting for Trump. The curtain is about to close on hundred thousands of deaths which could have been prevented with negotiations from the start
Blacklabel
And just like that, Germany stopped funding Ukraine.
what happened to all those posters claiming funding wouldn’t stop when USA stops?
Underworld
Blacklabel
The USA won't stop funding Ukraine.
Fos
Here comes the US department spokesperson :)
Certainly the funding for the disinformation in Asia did not stop
Blacklabel
Germany just did. Does that upset you?
utorsa
Targeting women and children in shopping malls?
Putin's Russian military stooges are nothing more than depraved war criminals.
utorsa
Targeting women and children in educational facilities as well.
War criminal behaviour.
How cowardly of the Russian military.
Underworld
Fos
It wasn’t any media, legacy or Washington that initiated this war. It was Putin. And he thought that it would be over in a week.
Umm, no, he doesn’t.
The Russian economy is a house of cards.
https://www.ft.com/content/61adaed4-ac9a-4891-afb6-b3ad648c58ad
The reality is that the financial underpinnings of Russia’s war economy increasingly look like a house of cards — so much so that senior members of the governing elite are publicly expressing concern. They include Sergei Chemezov, chief executive of state defence giant Rostec, who warned that expensive credit was killing his weapons export business, and Elvira Nabiullina, head of the central bank.
JJE
The people targeted are individuals associated with the regime.
They aren't telling you about a certain Dane, who instructed for a certain class of aircraft, who was removed from the board too. That is the "educational facility" mentioned.
Underworld
Blacklabel
The USA won't stop funding Ukraine.
They’ll be back. It’s election season at the moment.
Blacklabel
So the German people won’t elect a leader who funds Ukraine? so they needed to pretend to stop it to get elected?
Underworld
Blacklabel
They’ll be back. It’s election season at the moment.
Just political games.
wallace
Germany will continue to support Ukraine.
Primusinter
On the "educational facilities" mentioned in the article.
Danish pilot and instructor in the operation of F-16 fighter jets, Jeppe Hansen, was killed during a missile attack on the Ukrainian Armed Forces training center in Krivoy Rog. This message was confirmed by Dr. Jeppe on Facebook. It is reported that the information on the FB differs from that provided by the Ukrainian media.
I repeat it again. Russians are not targeting children, women, schools, hospitals and shopping malls!
Blacklabel
nope. Will be using their money for Germans. Just like America will.
utorsa
@Burgerland / JJE /Primusinter
Putin propaganda site Russia Today and some rando on social media are not credible news sources.
wallace
Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his reluctance to approve a further 3 billion euros ($3.09 billion) in additional military aid for Ukraine if it meant reducing social welfare spending.
Kuku
You didn't read the posts here carefully. The death of the pilot was reported by his father and friends on the enemy's FB website. This source is blocked in Russia!!!
utorsa
You rely on FB for your news? LOL
Fos
utorsa
I think it is pretty much the other way around it, if you look at the huge amount of money the US big industrial military complex is making with (more than) hundreds of billions of dollars orders of arms deals being shipped to Ukraine. No surprises that Wall Street rose to historical records. Don't forget the top 5 weapons manufacturers in the world are all Americans.
utorsa
@Fos
Ah, the "Legacy Media" gambit. LOL
stormcrow
Murder is a more accurate description.
Primusinter
Who asked for it, when and where?
Before the half there were 12 thousand killed Russians in Donbass from 2014. Killed by Ukraine.
TaiwanIsNotChina
He is conditioning it on eliminating Germany's draconian balanced budget law. Stop being disingenuous for once.
ClippetyClop
Me and others, for three years of invading, here.
Killed by Russians as a result of their warm up war.
Mr Kipling
Of all that has happened in Ukraine in the past few days this is the least important. Why is it even being reported? I guess anything except the Russian capture of towns and villages, important mineral reserves and the falling defenses and abandoning of front lines by Ukraine is the narrative?
Primusinter
During this war, several thousand foreign mercenaries were killed on the Ukrainian side. How many official obituaries have been seen published in your official media? When relatives report the deaths of their loved ones, sons, and fathers, they don't care if some utorsa will believe them... They inform a close circle of friends and relatives. And, by the way, I haven't noticed any mocking reactions on Russian media about the death of this pilot. But for some reason it made you laugh...A handsome Danish boy...
ClippetyClop
What a time to be alive eh! Or most likely dead.
Half a million dead and rising
Have you accepted that this is a ‘war’ and not just a ‘SMO’ yet?
Primusinter
Where have you got the information? If you are one of the mercenaries who have been fighting in Ukraine since 2014, then you know very well that this is not true. And if you have read it in Wikipedia or Ukrainian sources, then I advise you to change these sources for more credible ones.
ClippetyClop
You were the first to claim that Ukraine killed them all, so you prove it.
Or not, don’t really care when it comes to you.