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Summary

Footage shows aftermath of the Russian drone strike in Kyiv

Live Reporting

Edited by Alex Smith, with Paul Adams reporting from Kyiv

  1. Zelensky calls for ability after deadly Russian strikes

    A uniformed officer inspects debris among the rubble outside a bombed building in KyivReuters

    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 able" 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.

    We're ending our live coverage for now. You can read more in our news story.

  2. 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 istration 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.

  3. 'Russia must be held able' - Zelensky

    Volodymyr ZelenskyReuters

    "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, which he says targeted "almost all of Ukraine".

    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 able 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 ability. We must act decisively."

  4. 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.

    Three men stand below a building which was hit in the strikesReuters
    A man crouches down to inspect the rubble below a building which was hit by a Russian strikeReuters
    A man is seen, through a smashed apartment window above a satellite dish, inspecting the inside of a buildingReuters

  5. 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 istration, 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.

    Firefighters tackle blaze in destroyed buildingDSNS

    Russian strikes hit parts of Ukraine overnight - including in Ternopil

  6. Russia launched over 400 drones overnight, Ukraine's military says

    Vitaliy Shevchenko
    Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

    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.

  7. Explosions and machine gun fire rattle Kyiv

    Paul Adams
    Diplomatic correspondent, reporting from 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.

  8. 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.

  9. What happened overnight?

    Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone attack in KyivReuters

    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.

  10. Three people killed were rescue workers, Ukrainian emergency service says

    Vitaliy Shevchenko
    Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

    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.

  11. 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.

  12. Overnight strike the latest in a series of heavy assaults

    Firefighters extinguish a fire on pipe at residential district after a Russian night drone attack on 5 June 2025 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.Getty Images

    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.

  13. Reporters hear Russian kamikaze drones buzzing in the sky over Kyiv

    An investigator inspects the site where a Russian drone struck an apartment building, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv,Reuters

    An apartment building in Kyiv was among the sites hit by the Russian drone attack

    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.

  14. 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 istration 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.

  15. 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.

    Wide shot of buildings in Kyiv in the dark, with a bright orange flame and grey smoke billowing out among the buildingsReuters
    Wide shot of Kyiv skyline in the dark, illuminated by a bright orange flash behind some buildings, with a plume of white smoke.Reuters
    Aerial shot of Kyiv at dawn, with grey smoke floating over the cityReuters

  16. Russia's war in Ukraine like 'two young children fighting' - Trump

    Trump gestures with his hand while sitting on a yellow chair. Sitting beside him in another chair is Merz.Getty Images

    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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.