Russia launches missile strikes on Kyiv and surrounding region, killing at least eight

What the report says

Russia carried out overnight missile strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 33, according to Ukrainian authorities cited by BBC World News. The strikes hit apartment blocks, warehouses, a children’s hospital and a school, while rescue crews searched damaged buildings and pulled two survivors from the debris.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said a children’s hospital was damaged and that an educational institution and an industrial site in the Solomyanskyi district were also struck. In the broader Kyiv region, regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said one man was killed and another wounded in Brovary district. Authorities warned residents to take shelter through the night as air raid alerts continued.

The attacks also disrupted power supplies, leaving thousands of properties without electricity in parts of the Kyiv region. Technicians were working to repair damaged energy infrastructure. Separately, Romania said a drone entered its airspace near the border with Ukraine and later crashed in an uninhabited area, while Poland said it had begun defensive air operations as a precaution.

The BBC noted that Kyiv has faced repeated strikes in recent weeks amid the wider war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. It said Moscow claimed to have hit military-related targets, but those assertions were not independently verified by the broadcaster.