Russian missiles hit Kyiv as wider Ukraine strikes kill two more
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- Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv early Sunday, setting fire to a tower block near the historic centre, mayor Vitali Klitschko said, and wounding at least three civilians — one requiring hospital treatment — while Russia's defence ministry said the strike hit sites linked to drone production.
- Attacks elsewhere in Ukraine on Sunday killed at least two people: a drone strike on Kharkiv killed one and wounded six, including two children, while a Russian glide bomb on Zaporizhzhia — just over 20 kilometres from the front line — killed one man and wounded six others, according to their respective mayors.
- Russia's defence ministry said its forces shot down 133 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russia, the Black Sea and Crimea, while Kremlin-installed officials in occupied eastern Ukraine said a Ukrainian drone strike killed four civilians in Horlivka.
- Finnish President Alexander Stubb said on Sunday that "Ukraine's position is stronger than ever since the war began," crediting Kyiv's recent drone campaign against major Russian energy sites and military supplies after a call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had warned on Friday that Russia was preparing a major missile attack within 48 hours.
- Romania shot down a third drone breaching its airspace in three days — an F-16 intercepted one over the Sulina–Chilia area at 10:13 on Sunday morning — with President Nicușor Dan calling the violations "inadmissible and intolerable" and identifying Friday's weapon as a Shahed-type drone commonly used by Moscow.
- Sunday's strikes came just two days after a major Russian attack near Kyiv killed at least 10 people and wounded around 100 others, underscoring what the source describes as "the continuing cycle of strikes" and the widening regional strain of Russia's invasion.
Why it matters: The strikes come two days after a major Russian attack near Kyiv killed at least 10 people and wounded around 100, and Romania's third drone interception in three days — a Shahed-type weapon commonly used by Moscow — shows the war's spillover into neighbouring airspace is now recurring, with F-16s scrambling over Romanian territorial waters and the country's president calling each breach 'inadmissible and intolerable.'
