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Here’s where things stand on Friday 6 June 2025:
- Ukrainian officials say Russia launched a large-scale attack overnight, with drones and missiles hitting the capital Kyiv
- At least four people have been killed and 20 injured in the city, mayor Vitali Klitschko says. Emergency services say three of those killed were rescue workers
- Kyiv authorities say an air raid alert has been cancelled for now – but warnings are still in place for other areas of the country
- In the north-western city of Lutsk, the mayor says Russia used 15 drones and six missiles in its attack – injuring five people
- Earlier this week, Donald Trump said that in his call with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president had vowed “very strongly” to respond to Ukraine’s recent drone attack on Russian airbases
Zelensky calls for accountability after deadly Russian strikes
Three rescue workers have been killed and dozens of people injured by overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine, in one of Moscow’s largest aerial attacks of the war.
President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia “must be held accountable” for the strikes, which he says targeted “almost all of Ukraine” – including the capital, Kyiv.
Ukrainian authorities say Moscow used over 400 drones and more than 40 missiles overnight. Meanwhile, Russia says it intercepted 174 Ukrainian drones and three Ukrainian missiles over the Black Sea.
It comes after US President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had vowed to respond to Ukraine’s surprise Operation Spider’s Web drone attacks on Russian airfields earlier this week.
Several houses and metro tracks damaged in Kyiv
We can bring you some more detail now from on the ground in Kyiv following last night’s attacks.
The city’s regional military administration says several houses were damaged in the Brovary, Bucha, and Boryspil districts.
“The buildings have broken windows and doors, damaged roofs,” it writes in a post on social media.
And Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says work to restore metro tracks damaged in the strikes will continue throughout the day.
‘Russia must be held accountable’ – Zelensky
“Russia doesn`t change its stripes – another massive strike on cities and ordinary life,” writes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a post on X.
Zelensky says “over 400 drones and more than 40 missiles – including ballistic missiles” were used in the overnight strikes across the country.
He says three people – all rescue workers – have been killed and 49 people wounded.
That’s a different number to what we’ve been reporting this morning. Earlier Kyiv’s mayor said four people had been killed in the strikes.
“Russia must be held accountable for this,” Zelensky says, adding: “We’ve done a lot together with the world to enable Ukraine to defend itself. But now is exactly the moment when America, Europe, and everyone around the world can stop this war together by pressuring Russia.”
He adds: “If someone is not applying pressure and is giving the war more time to take lives – that is complicity and accountability. We must act decisively.”
In pictures: Kyiv after Russia’s overnight strikes
In Kyiv this morning, residents have been inspecting the damage following fresh Russian strikes.
Here’s what the scene looks like on the ground.
Ternopil residents urged to stay indoors after Russian strike
Authorities in Ternopil, in western Ukraine, have told locals to stay indoors due to harmful substances being present in the air following a Russian attack.
“As of 08:00 (06:00 BST) the highest allowed levels of certain harmful substances have been detected,” says the head of the regional administration, Vyacheslav Nehoda, in a post on social media.
“Experts say Ternopil residents, especially children, should stay indoors. They are asking that windows remain closed,” he writes.
Russia launched over 400 drones overnight, Ukraine’s military says
Russia launched 407 strike drones, and 38 cruise and six ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat says.
In an interview with Ukrainian TV, he says up to 30 missiles and 200 drones were intercepted.
This is the second-largest aerial attack on Ukraine, after Russia used 472 missiles and drones on the night into Sunday.
Explosions and machine gun fire rattle Kyiv
Ukrainians had been expecting a fresh round of Russian air raids, even before Donald Trump’s warning that Vladimir Putin was seeking revenge for last Sunday’s Ukrainian attack on Russian airbases.
Here in the capital, which has seen many such nights before, residents took shelter as air defences tackled waves of drones and missiles.
Over the course of several hours, we heard a number of large explosions and the regular rattle of machine gun fire as the city’s air defences tried to shoot down drones.
The authorities say at least four people were killed, three of them rescue workers. More than a dozen people have been taken to hospital.
Some eastern parts of the city are still without power.
Four regions remain under air raid alert
Overnight large parts of Ukraine were under an air raid alert – both in the east and in the north-western regions of Volyn and Rivne.
Most of these have now been cancelled – as of 09:20 local time (07:20 BST), Sumy, Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea are still under an active air raid alert.
What happened overnight?
Ukrainian officials say Russia launched a large-scale attack on the country overnight, hitting the capital Kyiv.
Four people were killed there and 20 injured, according to the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko. The Ukrainian state emergency service (DSNS) says three of those killed were rescue workers.
Air raid alerts were in place during the night in Kyiv, as well as in Kharkiv, Sumy and Luhansk – most of these alerts have since ended.
The strikes come days after US President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had said “he will have to respond”, following Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web drone attack on Russian warplanes.
Three people killed were rescue workers, Ukrainian emergency service says
Three of the four people killed in the Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight were rescue workers, the Ukrainian state emergency service (DSNS) says.
“They were working under attack to help people. Another nine rescue workers were wounded. Some seriously, and doctors are fighting to save their lives,” DSNS says.
It adds that five DSNS workers sustained injuries while putting out fires caused by Russian attacks on Ternopil.
Overall, about 40 people were wounded across Ukraine overnight, it says.
Russia intercepted Ukrainian drones overnight, defence ministry says
Russia’s Ministry of Defence says its air defences shot down 174 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The ministry says a number of attacks were launched by Ukraine on parts of Russia and occupied Crimea from around 20:00 local time (18:00 BST) last night.
In its morning update, the ministry says three Ukrainian Neptune missiles were also intercepted over the Black Sea.
Overnight strike the latest in a series of heavy assaults
Russia has launched multiple aerial assaults on Ukraine in the past few months, including more than 300 drones and missiles in a single night last week.
In that strike, Russia launched 367 drones and missiles against Ukraine – the largest number in a single night since Putin’s full-scale invasion began in 2022.
At least 12 people, including three children were killed and dozens more were injured.
At the time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the US’s silence on the attack: “This cannot be ignored. America’s silence, and the silence of others in the world, only encourages Putin.”
And for three consecutive nights in the last week of May, Russia targeted Ukraine with some of the heaviest aerial attacks across multiple regions, according to the Kyiv Independent paper.
Reporters hear Russian kamikaze drones buzzing in the sky over Kyiv
Russia launched a large-scale attack across Ukraine overnight, with drones and missiles targeting Kyiv and other cities.
A photographer with the Reuters news agency reports that a drone caused a gaping hole in an apartment building in the Solomenskiy district, where concrete blocks had fallen and nearby cars were crushed.
Reuters reporters said they heard the sound of “Russian kamikaze drones buzzing in the sky, accompanied by the sounds of outgoing fire from Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire”.
They also reported explosions that were so powerful they caused windows to rattle on buildings far away from impact sites.
The situation outside Kyiv
Outside Kyiv, Russia’s aerial raids have also targeted the city of Lutsk and the Ternophil region, both on Ukraine’s north-west.
Multiple strikes triggered fires in Ternophil, regional military administration chief Vyacheslav Negoda has said, according to the AFP news agency.
Negoda calls it the “most massive air attack on our region to date”.
The strikes have wounded five people in Lutsk, where homes, schools and a government facility have been damaged, Mayor Igor Polishchuk says.
In Khmelnytsky city, the air raids have damaged some cars and buildings, according to the region’s governor.
In photos: Kyiv under attack
Here are the latest photos coming out of Kyiv, after the Ukrainian capital was hit by Russian drones and missiles hours ago.
As we reported earlier, the death toll in Kyiv now stands at four.
Russia’s war in Ukraine like ‘two young children fighting’ – Trump
The attack in Kyiv comes hours after US President Donald Trump’s meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, where Ukraine was on the agenda along with trade relations.
During their meeting in the Oval Office, Trump compared the war in Ukraine to “two young children fighting like crazy”.
“Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart,” he said, as Merz looked on in silence.
Trump said that he had given the same analogy to Putin earlier this week.
Since his presidential campaign Trump has pledged to end the war in Ukraine – though since taking office he has made little progress and been criticised for not being tough enough on Russia.
Death toll climbs to four
We have just heard from Kyiv’s Mayor Klitschko, who says the death toll has now risen to four.
Search and rescue teams have been deployed, he adds.
Russia used 15 drones, 6 missiles on Lutsk – mayor
Russia used 15 drones and six missiles in the attack on the northwestern Lutsk city, in the Volyn region, its mayor Ihor Polishchuk posted on his Telegram channel. Volyn is no longer under air raid alert.
Five people have been injured in the attack and there was no information on whether anyone had died, Polishchuk said. He also said that buildings and cars were damaged in the attack.
Strikes on Kyiv kill one person and wound 20, says mayor
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko now says Russia’s strike has killed at least one person in the capital.
He says 20 people have been hurt, 16 of whom are in hospital.
When was the last strike on Kyiv?
The attack on Kyiv today comes after the capital was hit by Russian strikes on 25 May, as part of a broader Russian attack across Ukraine.
That attack consisted of more than 350 “air attack vehicles”, including ballistic missiles and attack drones, Ukrainian authorities said. It killed 12 people across the country, and 16 people were injured in Kyiv.
Before that, the last strike was on 7 May. Kyiv has been the target of frequent, regular strikes since Russia began its war on Ukraine in February 2022.
Western regions of Ukraine no longer under air raid alert
We reported earlier on the areas of Ukraine that are still under air raid alert. That alert has since ended in two of those regions: Volyn and Rivene, both in the northwestern part of the country.
However Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Donestk and Luhansk are still under alert, as is Crimea.
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Authorities in the Ukrainian capital have advised the public to stay on alert for air raid sirens and move to shelters as advised.
Kyiv strike follows Putin’s promise to respond ‘very strongly’ to drone attack
Tonight’s attacks on Ukraine, including on its capital city, comes a day Donald Trump shared that he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine’s “Spider Web” drone attack on Russia that took out at least 40 warplanes.
The call took over an hour and Trump warned in a social media post that it would not “lead to immediate peace”.
“President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields,” the US President said.
Much of Ukraine remains under air alert tonight, though the attack on the capital appears to be over.
Which regions are still under air raid alert?
As of 05:30 local time (02:30 GMT) local time, swathes of Ukraine remain under air raid alert, according to the online Ukraine air raid alert map that’s being updated in real-time.
They are the parts marked out in red on the map above: the north-western Volyn and Rivne regions, the eastern regions of Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk, as well as Crimea in the south.
We’re keeping an eye on the situation and will bring you the latest as we have them.
Fires and damaged petrol stations and train tracks
We are getting more details on the damage, this time from the Kyiv City Military Administration.
Four people are known to have been hurt, two of whom were brought to hospital.
Emergency services have been deployed and authorities are advising residents to be on alert for air raid sirens and head to shelters as advised.
The agency says there have been fires at a metal hangar and on the 11th floor of a 16-storey residential building in Solomianskyi district.
Debris fell on two cars in Darnytsky district. Fire struck a civilian area in Holosiivskyi, where debris also damaged a petrol station.
The metro track between Darnytsia and Livoberezhna stations has been damaged
Air raid appears to be over in Kyiv
The Kyiv City Military Administration has ended the air raid alert, posting on Telegram: “Kyiv city – air alert cancelled!”
It has published an account of the damage from the attack on Ukraine’s capital, which appears to be over for now. Other areas in Ukraine, including Kharkiv, Sumy and Luhansk are still operating under air raid warnings.
We will bring you more information on the damage shortly.
Kyiv mayor gives initial update on damage
Mayor Klitschko has also started giving a picture of the damage wrought by Russia’s strikes on Kyiv.
He says there is a fire and falling debris in Solomianskyi district and explosions in Obolon.
In Desnyansky district, debris has fallen on tram tracks, he says.
Injuries reported, says Kyiv mayor
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says on Telegram that Russia’s strikes have left at least three people wounded in Kyiv.
Two of whom have been brought to hospital while one received treatment on the spot, he says.
Attack comes days after Ukraine’s ‘spider web’ strike on Russia
Russia’s latest strike comes days after Ukraine launched its biggest long-range drone strike on at least 40 Russian warplanes at four military bases.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said 117 drones were used in the so-called “Spider’s Web” operation by the SBU security service, striking “34% of [Russia’s] strategic cruise missile carriers”.
Moscow had previously said that military options were “on the table” for its response to Ukraine’s attack.
Russia launches aerial strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine says
Ukrainian officials say Russian drones and missiles have attacked Kyiv and witnesses reported seeing a series of explosions and fires.
The head of Kyiv’s city military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said there was debris from downed enemy targets and reports of two preliminary casualties, in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
He also confirmed that three men were injured, two of them taken to hospital and one was treated at the scene.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump said in his call with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president had vowed “very strongly” to respond to Ukraine’s recent drone attack on Russian airbases.
Stay with us as we bring you the latest developments.
