The aftermath of a Russian airstike on Kyiv, Ukraine, 25 November 2025. Photo: Emergency Services of Ukraine
At least seven people were killed and 13 more injured in a combined missile and drone strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv launched by the Russian military overnight, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on Tuesday.
The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said that an 86-year-old woman had been among the dead. High-rise apartment buildings, garages and other facilities were struck in combined missile and drone strikes across the city, and heating was temporarily cut off in some neighbourhoods, the authorities said.
Three districts in the Kyiv region were also targeted, the emergency services reported, with a four-storey apartment building suffering damage and four houses completely destroyed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had used a total of 22 missiles and 460 drones overnight in airstrikes focusing largely on energy infrastructure across Ukraine, targeting the Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Cherkasy regions in addition to the Kyiv region.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones attacked the southern Russian city of Taganrog overnight, killing three, according to Rostov region Governor Yury Slyusar, who added that another 10 people had been injured, with civilian infrastructure and residential buildings damaged. Telegram channel ASTRA said a fire had broken out near the test runway at the Beriev aircraft manufacturing plant in Taganrog.
Russia’s southern Krasnodar region also came under attack from Ukrainian drones, with four people hospitalised with shrapnel wounds in the city of Novorossiysk, according to Mayor Andrey Kravechneko.
The Russian Defence Ministry said that its air defences had destroyed 249 Ukrainian drones overnight, 116 of which had been intercepted over the Black Sea.
