Two dead, eight Injured as Russian ballistic missiles and drones strike Kyiv overnight

According to the  State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES), two people were killed and eight injured in a Russian attack on the city of Kyiv on the night of May 6-7, 2025, including four children.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported on X that Russian armed forces launched four ballistic missiles and 142 drones at Ukraine, approximately half of which were Shahed drones. 

Rescue workers were responding in the Sviatoshynskyy, Solomianskyy, Shevchenkivskyy and Dniprovskyy Districts.

Debris struck a nine-storey building in the Sviatoshynskyy District of the Ukrainian capital. Apartments on the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth floors caught fire. A fire which spread over an area of 100 sq m was extinguished.

“Five people were rescued – one adult and four children (three children with burns have been hospitalised). Rescue operations are ongoing,” the statement of the SES reads.

Drone debris also fell in an open area in the Solomianskyy District. 

A drone crashed into a high-rise building in the Dniprovskyy district, causing partial destruction to the floor slabs on the 28th and 29th floors. The State Emergency Service said no fire or casualties had been recorded.

Debris from a drone fell on a five-storey building in the Shevchenkivskyy district. Apartments on the second and fourth floors caught fire. The rescuer found the bodies of two people during firefighting operations.

Later, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that the number of injured in the capital had risen to eight.

The President reported that since the evening, there have been numerous strikes on Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Kherson Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. He also revealed that in the village of Velyka Chernechchyna, Sumy Oblast, the Russians first launched a ballistic strike, then dropped aerial bombs, and continued shelling even as emergency workers were already on site.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy reported that, as a result of Russian shelling, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost power to one of the two external power lines connecting the temporarily occupied ZNPP with Ukraine’s unified energy system. According to the ministry, the plant was receiving electricity supply via only one power line.

Zelenskyy emphasized that only “significantly intensified pressure on Russia and stronger sanctions can pave the way to diplomacy”.

“Any measures that deprive the aggressor of resources to wage war must be implemented to bring lasting peace. I thank our partners who share this view and help us. I thank everyone who helps Ukraine with air defense. Russia must be held accountable for its actions,” the President of Ukraine stated.

The 28-year-old and 40-year-old men were killed, and another 30-year-old man was injured when a mine detonated in the city of Izium, the Kharkiv Oblast, according to the Kharkiv Oblast police. Three men found a POM-2 mine in a forest belt, left over from the period when the city of Izium and the Izium district were occupied by Russian Federation servicemen. 

Police urge residents to be extremely careful when finding unknown objects, especially in de-occupied territories and in areas where active hostilities took place.

Vadym Filashkin, Head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, reported that Russian forces killed four and wounded ten more civilians in the Donetsk Oblast on May 6.

“The Russians killed four residents of Donetsk Oblast on May 6 – in Kramatorsk, Poltavka, Yablunivka and Sofiivka. Another 10 people suffered wounds during the day,” he wrote. He added that since the onset of the full-scale invasion, Russians have killed at least 3,196 civilians and injured at least 7,065 in the Donetsk Oblast. Filashkin stressed that these figures do not include those killed in Mariupol and Volnovakha.

On the morning of May 6, Russian forces struck the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast seven times, killing one person and injuring two others.

Previously, the 4th Security Battalion of the 101st Separate Security Brigade of Ukraine’s General Staff released a video showing how Russians destroyed Toretsk in the Donetsk Oblast. 

According to the Russian propaganda agency TASS, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Vladimir Putin’s initiative to hold a ceasefire on the occasion of the Victory Day in World War II is still in place.

Previously, the President of Ukraine called Russia’s suggestion for a so-called “ceasefire on 9 May” top-level cynicism against the background of constant Russian shelling and killing of citizens of Ukraine.

“[…] A real ceasefire is necessary. Ukraine is ready for silence to begin on any day – but for no less than a month, to bring the war to an end. If there’s silence, it must be every day,” Zelenskyy said. 

US Vice President JD Vance in an interview at the Munich Security Conference in Washington on May 7 made it clear that Washington is no longer prioritising the 30-day ceasefire proposal, which Ukraine had unconditionally accepted, but Russia not.

“Ukrainians have said they would agree to a 30-day ceasefire, we appreciate that,” he stressed. “What the Russians have said is ‘a 30-day ceasefire is not in our strategic interests’. We’ve tried to move beyond the obsession with the 30-day ceasefire and [focus] more on what the long-term settlement would look like,” he said and added that the US would like the Russians and Ukrainians to agree on some basic principles in order to start negotiations.. 

Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Andrii Yermak, has said in an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit that Ukraine is ready for peace negotiations, but only after a complete ceasefire. He added that some issues would have to be discussed with Russia.

Yermak stressed that Ukraine had proven itself a responsible and constructive partner. In particular, it has signed a historic agreement with the United States, which Yermak called “the foundation of future security through the economy”.