Russia Resumes Kyiv Strikes; Officials Say Two Killed

Russia struck Kyiv with missiles and drones early Tuesday, killing two people and injuring at least 10, Ukrainian authorities said — ending a reported three-day pause in attacks on the Ukrainian capital that had coincided with a visit by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

The strikes began at about 3:30 a.m. local time, the Kyiv Independent reported. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that people were trapped in a residential building and that fires broke out across the city after ballistic missile strikes. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said damage and fires were recorded in at least five districts of the capital; the Kyiv City Military Administration said civilian infrastructure was damaged in at least 16 locations.

Rescuers pulled people from a 16-story apartment building in the Holosiivskyi district and freed at least 10 people trapped in a five-story residential block in the Solomianskyi district, the emergency service said, according to the Associated Press. A 26-story non-residential building in Holosiivskyi was hit.

What Ukraine says was fired

Ukraine's Air Force said its forces shot down or suppressed two ballistic missiles, 31 cruise missiles and 142 drones, and that hits were recorded in 29 locations, the AP reported. The Washington Examiner, citing the Air Force and the Kyiv Independent, reported that Russia fired at least 12 ballistic missiles, 32 cruise missiles and 166 Shahed-type drones, roughly half of them jet-powered.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post that the attack was "complex" and planned "to cause as much harm to life as possible," involving ballistic, cruise and anti-ship missiles along with jet-powered Shahed drones. He said 13 people were rescued and two were killed, and that Ukrainian forces downed 175 aerial targets overnight.

Kyiv was not the only target. Zelensky said critical infrastructure was struck in the Kyiv region, a market was hit in the Odesa region, two people were injured and an apartment building damaged in Kharkiv, and a locomotive on the Kyiv–Sumy route was attacked at a railway station in the Sumy region with no injuries. He said Zaporizhzhia and the Dnipro region were also targeted.

Poland scrambled aircraft

As explosions were heard in Kyiv, Poland — a NATO and EU member — began military aviation operations to protect its airspace against the risk of a violation, its armed forces said on X. Lublin Airport briefly suspended flights and later reopened, Poland's air navigation agency PANSA said, according to Deutsche Welle. The Polish military said no airspace violations were recorded.

Russian officials reported casualties on their side of the border. One person was killed in the town of Starodub in Russia's Bryansk region in a Ukrainian attack, authorities said, per Deutsche Welle. Saratov regional governor Roman Busargin said a Ukrainian drone attack hit civilian infrastructure in the city of Saratov and injured several people.