Kyiv region
Civilian deaths from Russian strikes in Ukraine up fourfold in 2025 in first 10 months of 2025 – UN
In addition to the fatalities, at least 3,529 people sustained various injuries, which is 75% higher than during the same period last year
As a result of the Russian attack on Vyshhorod, one person was killed and 19 others were injured, including four children
A total of two other multi-storey residential buildings, 14 houses, a business, and seven vehicles were damaged in the city
Russian military killed eight people in Ukraine in shelling on November 25
According to the National Police, Russian shelling on November 25, 2025, killed eight civilians in Kyiv and the Chernihiv region, with more than four dozen others injured, including those in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia regions
Seven civilians killed in wave of Russian strikes across Kyiv (updated)
At least seven people were killed and 35 more injured in a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv
Russian forces carried out another massive attack on Ukraine: two killed and dozens injured
On the night of November 8, 2025, Russian forces launched a massive attack on a number of Ukrainian cities, using Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, Kalibr cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones. The strikes killed at least two people, wounded dozens, and destroyed residential buildings and energy infrastructure facilities
Russia strikes Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight: people killed and injured, including children, some regions without power
The National Police of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service (SES), and regional military administrations reported civilian casualties. Russians also caused damage, including to energy and railway infrastructure, across the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Lviv, and Mykolaiv regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 30, 2025
Russians kills at least 7, wounds 51 Ukrainians in massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine
Ukraine's air force said Russia had sent 405 drones and 28 missiles, 15 of which were ballistic
Russian attack overnight kills, wounds civilians including child; some Districts of Ukraine’s capital left without power (updated)
Killed and wounded civilians and damaged infrastructure were reported across the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, and Poltava regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 10, 2025. The strikes caused power cuts across several of these regions
Russia has destroyed several grain storage facilities and a food production plant over the past several days
On the night of October 4, 2025, Russian drones shelled the Chernechchyna hromada – a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements – in the Sumy region, hitting a grain storage facility in what reports indicated was a deliberate strike
Ukraine sentences 202 Russian troops for war crimes – the Office of the Prosecutor General
The investigation into war crimes committed by Russian military personnel in Bucha and the Bucha District of the Kyiv region is also ongoing. Investigators continue to document these crimes with international partners
Overnight Russian attack hits railways, kills civilians in multiple regions of Ukraine
Russian shelling on the night of October 2, 2025, killed and wounded civilians in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Chernihiv regions and destroyed railway infrastructure
Russian attack leaves Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement without electricity
The New Safe Confinement, which covers the destroyed fourth reactor, was left without power. The structure is critical to preventing the release of radioactive materials
At least four people, including a child, killed in the Russian attack on Kyiv (updated)
A "massive attack" by Russia against Ukraine's capital killed at least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured at least 27 others at night and in the morning on September 28, 2025
In the night, Russia killed and injured people in shelling attacks in Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and the Kyiv region
During the night, the Russian army launched more than 140 drones at Ukraine, most of which were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force. The military reported that the drones hit seven locations
Russian strikes kill 32, including two children, and injure 159 peoppe in Kyiv overnight (updated)
Russia launched 309 drones and eight cruise missiles during the night, according to Ukraine's air force. And although officials say air defences did manage to destroy many of them, there were numerous hits, including from cruise missiles
Russian strikes kill at least nine civilians in Kyiv overnight
In the latest barrage, 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles targeted Ukrainian territory, mostly in the Kyiv area, the Ukrainian air force reported
Russian strike hits seven Kyiv Districts as Putin escalates Ukraine attacks
The head of Kyiv's military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said that the attacks on various districts happened "simultaneously"
“The truth makes a person free, and therefore victorious”: a documentary about the oppression of priests in occupied Melitopol was shown in Kyiv
The documentary film "No God But Theirs", created by The Kyiv Independent, took place in Kyiv, which highlights the oppression of priests in occupied Melitopol
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