Russian overnight missile and drone attack killed six and injured 21 in Kyib Oblast

yiv and its surrounding region came under heavy attack overnight, leaving at least six people dead and more than 20 injured, including several children, according to local officials.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, reported that two people were killed and 21 injured in the capital — among them five children.

In Kyiv Oblast, Governor Mykola Kalashnik said that four people were killed in the Brovarsky district. The victims included a woman born in 1987, a six-month-old baby, and a 12-year-old girl, whose bodies were discovered at the scene of a house fire. Later, the body of a man, also born in 1987, was recovered from the same area.

Residents across Kyiv were jolted awake by explosions around 1:10 a.m. local time, shortly after Ukraine’s Air Force issued a ballistic missile alert. Several additional blasts followed roughly half an hour later.

Multiple fires erupted throughout the city as medics and emergency crews rushed to the sites of the strikes. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that vehicles were set ablaze and windows in nearby residential buildings were shattered. In the Dniprovskyi district, firefighters contained a blaze in a high-rise building and rescued 10 people.

Emergency responders were also deployed to the Darnytskyi district, where a non-residential building caught fire amid the overnight assault.

Russian Strikes hit Zaporizhzhia and Odesa regions, leaving dozens injured and thousands without power

Russian forces launched a massive overnight assault on Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which was among the targets of the Russian large-scale aerial attack that happened overnight, inflicting widespread destruction and casualties across several settlements.

Governor Ivan Fedorov reported that Russian troops carried out around 860 strikes on 14 communities in the region. In the city of Zaporizhzhia, 13 people were injured, while two more were wounded in the Vasyllivsky district.

Fedorov said authorities received 48 reports of damage to homes, vehicles, and buildings, including an apartment complex.

In Odesa Oblast, attacks on the port city of Izmail caused power outages, disrupting electricity across parts of the city. Recent Russian strikes on the region’s energy infrastructure have left thousands of households without power, worsening the humanitarian situation as winter approaches.

A kindergarten in Kharkiv ablazed due to the large-scale Russian attack, one killed, and children injured

Kharkiv suffered the overnight Russian attack, as did other regions of Ukraine, with at least three explosions reported in the city. A private kindergarten in the Kholodnohirskyi district was struck, injuring several children and killing one person.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said that a Shahed drone hit the kindergarten, sparking a fire at the site. “All the children have been evacuated, but the fire is still ongoing,” he reported.

According to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, at least four people were initially reported injured, two of them in serious condition. Later updates confirmed a total of five injuries and one fatality — a 40-year-old man.

Among the wounded is a woman with severe burns, who has been hospitalized along with other victims. Medics and emergency crews remain on the scene as rescue efforts continue.

Moscow denies reports that preparations for the Putin-Trump meeting have been canceled

Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and a member of the Kremlin’s negotiation team, denied Western media reports suggesting that preparations for a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had been suspended. He insisted that work on the planned summit in Budapest is still underway.

Dmitriev, writing on X (formerly Twitter), accused Western outlets of “twisting comments” from White House sources about the alleged pause in planning in order to undermine the upcoming meeting. “Preparations continue,” he stated.

He also reposted a message from Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who claimed that “supporters of war” would attempt to create a negative media environment to derail the summit.

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