Russia Pounds Ukraine with Drones and Missiles, Killing Eight and Hitting Energy Facilities

Reuters

An invAn apartment building damaged during an overnight Russian drone and missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, 14 November 2025.

Russia launched a large-scale drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday, killing eight people and striking energy infrastructure, residential buildings and key facilities, Ukrainian officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces used around 430 drones and 18 missiles in one of the biggest attacks on the capital so far, and that Ukraine was responding with long-range strikes.

Ukrainian authorities said most of the incoming drones and missiles were shot down, but falling debris and subsequent fires damaged high-rise apartment blocks, a school, a medical facility and administrative buildings across nine districts of Kyiv, a city of about three million people.

City officials confirmed that six people were killed in Kyiv, which was the main focus of the attacks. In the south, Russian drones struck the Black Sea port city of Chornomorsk, killing two people, the regional governor said.

“Only pressure – with sanctions and strength – can force Russia to end this war, a war that no one but them ever needed,” President Zelenskiy said, adding that the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyiv was also hit by debris from an Iskander missile.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had targeted Ukrainian energy facilities and the country’s weapons-production complex with “high-precision” weapons in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory.

Flames lit up the night sky over parts of Kyiv as several waves of Russian drones and missiles struck. Photographs from the scene showed residents standing in rubble-strewn streets outside damaged apartment buildings.

Timur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said at least 34 people were injured across the city, including two children. A pregnant woman was among nine people taken to hospital.

Ukraine’s energy ministry reported partial power cuts in the central Kyiv region, the southern Odesa region and the eastern Donetsk region.

The governor of the wider Kyiv region said drone and missile strikes there injured six people, including a seven-year-old child, and triggered several fires. In Chornomorsk, ten people, including a child, were injured when Russian strikes hit the city’s market, officials said.

“Ukraine is responding to these strikes with long-range strength, and the world must stop these attacks on life with sanctions,” President Zelenskiy said.

Kyiv has intensified its own drone attacks deep inside Russia in recent months, targeting oil refineries, depots and pipelines in an effort to disrupt Moscow’s main source of funding for its war in Ukraine.

Source: Reuters



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