Russia Kills 12 in Sixth Night on Kyiv

Sixth straight day, and a count that moved all morning

Russia bombarded Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into Tuesday morning, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than a dozen others, including three children, local authorities said in reports carried by CTV News and the Associated Press. It was the sixth consecutive day of strikes on the capital region.

The toll on this single attack moved through the morning, and The Frank is showing that movement rather than printing one number as final. The Independent reported at least nine killed in its account of the sixth night, then at least 11 in an AP-sourced update, and CTV News and the Washington Examiner then reported 12. All refer to the same overnight assault.

President Volodymyr Zelensky gave the fullest accounting, quoted by the Washington Examiner from his own posts. "In Kyiv, a strike on a railway depot killed 7 people," he said. "Overall, 12 people were killed, among them an Indian citizen, and dozens more were injured in the attack." He said nearly 350 first responders were working in Kyiv and the region alone, and that the Kherson, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy and Dnipro regions were also hit.

The assault began around 6 p.m. local time and targeted the Kyiv and Odesa regions, the Washington Examiner reported, citing the AP, with more than 200 drones launched alongside anti-radar, ballistic and cruise missiles. Zelensky said residential buildings and civilian infrastructure were damaged.

What is being hit, and why

Moscow has intensified its strikes in retaliation for Ukraine's deep-strike campaign against Russian energy infrastructure, which has caused a fuel crisis inside Russia, The Independent reported. Warehouses in Brovary and Boryspil, in the Kyiv region, were struck in Monday's attacks, wounding four people, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration.