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The Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported two deaths and at least 10 injuries from the overnight assault on the capital, with emergency services recording damage across seven districts including the Solomianskyi area where both fatalities occurred. According to the State Emergency Service, the strikes damaged 14 apartment blocks, a school, a medical clinic, warehouses, a supermarket, a petrol station and the entrance to a metro station while sparking fires in residential and non-residential buildings. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said falling debris triggered blazes at a five-storey apartment block and a three-storey residential structure, with rescue teams evacuating trapped residents from multiple sites.
The assault resumed after Russian President Vladimir Putin had declared a three-day halt in strikes on Kyiv through September 8 to allow US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel between Moscow and the Ukrainian capital for talks on ending the war, Bloomberg reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held discussions with the envoys on Sunday and stated he anticipated the conflict would extend into the winter months, the BBC noted. The pause ended almost immediately after the American officials departed Kyiv on Sunday.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha criticised the resumption of attacks, writing on X that Putin ordered the strikes the moment the US envoys left the city. “His ballistic missiles speak louder than his words on diplomacy,” Sybiha added in the post carried by CBC News. He urged Ukraine’s allies to intensify pressure on Moscow and provide additional interceptors for ballistic missiles, whose stocks in Kyiv have run critically low.
A 29-year-old foreign national was among the injured in the Darnytskyi district while eight people aged 22 to 65 sustained shrapnel wounds, cuts and injuries to the face, neck, torso and limbs in Solomianskyi, Ukrainska Pravda reported citing the National Police. Overall at least 14 apartment blocks, an accommodation centre, educational and medical facilities, 25 cars and several warehouses suffered damage in the combined drone and missile barrage, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration. In a related development, the governor of Russia’s Saratov region reported Ukrainian drone strikes on buildings there early Tuesday.
The Russian defence ministry stated its forces had targeted military and logistics facilities in and around Kyiv as well as the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk, Reuters reported. This latest exchange of long-range strikes comes as both sides have escalated such operations in the more than four-year-old conflict. The United Nations has recorded nearly 50 percent more civilian deaths and injuries in Ukraine during the first five months of 2025 than in the same period of 2024.
Kyiv’s air defences engaged waves of unmanned aerial vehicles and high-speed ballistic missiles throughout the night, with alerts prompting residents to shelter in metro stations as has become routine during the war, the BBC described. Previous large-scale Russian attacks, including one in July 2024 that struck a children’s hospital and killed dozens across Ukraine, have similarly strained emergency services and civilian infrastructure, a Reuters compilation of official tallies showed. Ukrainian officials have consistently called for strengthened air defence capabilities from international partners in response to the persistent aerial threat.
