Missiles Strike Kyiv in Second Wave of Overnight Attacks as Moscow Reports Downing Hundreds of Ukrainian Drones

Kyiv: Missiles struck Ukraine’s capital in the early hours of Thursday, marking a fresh assault on the city only hours after a Russian ballistic missile attack on Wednesday evening left several people injured and damaged residential and transport infrastructure.

The Wednesday evening strike injured six people and damaged homes, a petrol station and transport equipment. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a service station and a private residential building were among the sites hit, and warned that people could be trapped beneath rubble. In the Darnytskyi district, on the left bank of the Dnipro River, missiles landed near a transport infrastructure facility.

Ballistic missiles again targeted the capital at around 3:00 a.m., as air raid sirens sounded across the city of three million. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service later reported that the strikes, which began on the evening of October 21, affected six districts of Kyiv, killing one person and injuring 22 others, among them four children. In the Dniprovskyi district, one person was killed and a child was taken to hospital, while six people were hurt in the Holosiivskyi district when a non-residential building was struck.

Earlier on Wednesday, a Russian drone attack on Kyiv killed at least two people and injured two others. On the same day, the United States resumed sharing early-warning intelligence with Ukraine on Russian ballistic missile launches. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the resumption of cooperation after meetings with US officials, stressing that advance warnings give civilians vital time to reach shelter.

Meanwhile, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Ukraine had launched 630 drones towards the Russian capital overnight, the vast majority of which were intercepted by air defences. He said two people were injured in the wider Moscow region and were receiving medical treatment.

The latest exchange of strikes comes despite recent signals of support from both President Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin for trilateral peace negotiations. It also follows a United Nations human rights report released in early October, which found that more than 400 civilians on average were killed or injured each week in Ukraine during the first eight months of 2026, a 55 percent rise compared with the same period in 2025.