Russian strike hits seven Kyiv Districts as putin escalates Ukraine attacks
Russia launched another large combined strike on Ukrainian cities, local authorities and BBC News reported. In Kyiv alone, Russian forces killed a 72-year-old woman, injured four civilians and caused widespread damage across seven of the capital’s ten districts.
The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said on Telegram that the attacks on various districts happened “simultaneously”.
He added that debris from “downed targets” fell on several buildings across the city, and fires broke out at a residential building and in warehouses.
The attacks “terrorised” the city, and it was “a difficult night for all of us,” the head of Kyiv’s military district, Tkachenko said.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said Russia launched 315 drones overnight across the country.
Further south in the port city of Odesa, two people were killed after drone attacks hit residential buildings and medical facilities, including a maternity ward, officials said. Zelensky later said 13 people were also injured there.
The overnight attack was “one of the largest strikes on Kyiv”, Zelensky said on social media.
Witnesses said they heard loud explosions across the city. Pictures showed the night sky lit in orange and heavy smoke rising from buildings.
Elsewhere in the country, the Dnipro region and Chernihiv region were also targeted, Zelensky said.
He said two of the seven missiles fired in the overnight strikes were “ballistics of North Korean production.”
Zelensky said, “For yet another night, instead of a ceasefire, there were massive strikes”.
Ukraine also launched drone attacks on Russia overnight, causing several airports to close temporarily.
The latest strikes come after massive Russian attacks across Ukraine in the past few days. Moscow said those strikes were in response to Ukraine’s recent attacks inside Russia.
A covert Ukrainian drone strike named “Pavutynnya” struck air bases deep inside Russia on 1 June. Russian leader Vladimir Putin had promised to respond “very strongly” to the attacks in a call with US President Donald Trump, according to the American leader.
During the attack early on Tuesday, air raid alerts were in place across large parts of Ukraine, the country’s official air raid map showed, including in Kyiv and the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions in the east.
Previously, the Atlantic, citing three administration officials and an outside White House adviser, reported that Donald Trump is outraged by Ukraine’s decision to strike Russian aircraft that had been attacking Ukraine. The attack has caused anger in the White House and triggered a new wave of debate over the advisability of further support for Kyiv.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump’s administration urged Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to soften sanctions against Russia in the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, which has strong bipartisan support in the Senate.
On June 3, 2025, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council and former president of the Russian Federation, declared that the true purpose of the so-called peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul is to ensure Russia’s swift and complete victory.
Medvedev stated that the Istanbul negotiations are not intended to bring about a “compromise peace” based on what he called “imaginary, unrealistic conditions”. Instead, he said they are needed to secure Russia’s “fastest possible victory”.
“This is the purpose of the Russian memorandum published,” he added.
Zelenskyy called the Russian Federation’s “memorandum” an ultimatum and explained why.
