Nearly 300 drones, 50 missiles: Russia unleashes massive overnight assault on Ukraine, energy sites hit

Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, killing one person in the Kyiv region and damaging energy infrastructure in the south, AP reported, citing Ukrainian officials.

Ukraine’s emergency service said Sunday that one person died in the Kyiv region and eight others, including a child, were rescued from the rubble of destroyed buildings.





The strikes caused damage and fires in five districts in Kyiv’s suburbs. In the village of Putrivka in the Fastiv district, emergency teams worked to rescue people trapped under debris.

In southern Ukraine, Russia struck energy infrastructure in the Odesa region, triggering significant fires that were later extinguished, the Emergency Service said.

According to Ukraine’s air force, the overnight assault involved 297 drones and 50 missiles of various types. It said 274 drones and 33 missiles were shot down or otherwise neutralised. Of the remaining projectiles, 14 missiles and 23 drones hit 14 locations, while three missiles were unaccounted for.

The latest barrage comes as Ukraine continues to face sustained aerial attacks, nearly four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion. In recent months, Moscow has intensified strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid, leading to power and heating disruptions during winter.

Separately, an explosion in the western city of Lviv killed one person and injured 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post Sunday. One person has been arrested in connection with the incident, which officials said was unrelated to Russia’s aerial attacks.

On the Russian side, the defence ministry in Russia said its air defences destroyed 86 Ukrainian drones overnight. In the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot, injuring a security guard and setting a fuel tank on fire, Moscow-installed leader Leonid Pasechnik said.