Massive Russian Attack against Ukraine Kills 22 Civilians
You can always expect Russians to fulfill their promises - especially when it pertains to launching massive, deadly drone attacks against civilian targets across Ukraine.
After weeks of promising another round of airborne strikes against Ukrainian cities, as well as warnings by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russian drones and missiles finally flew precisely toward their targets. The capital of Kyiv was especially hit the hardest.
This attack was reported by a host of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian news media, including the key broadcasters in the US and the West.
Even though it was anticipated, Ukraine’s allies and supporters did very little to stave off the attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack constituted “a completely transparent statement from Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic and other missile strikes, these attacks will continue.”
Russia launched at least 656 drones and 73 missiles at Ukraine Monday night and into Tuesday morning, June 1-2, Ukraine’s Air Force said. Forty of the missiles and 602 drones were downed or neutralized, but 38 sites were hit, with Kyiv the main target, the Air Force elaborated.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russian forces launched Kalibr cruise missiles toward Ukraine from the Caspian Sea. The straight-line (air) distance from the closest northwestern shores of the Caspian Sea to Kyiv is approximately 700-900 kilometers.
Russia launched a massive combined missile and drone attack across Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring over 100 others. Kyiv reported 6 killed and 79 injured, including 3 children, while Dnipro reported 15 killed, including 2 children, and at least 37 wounded. Kharkiv and the Kyiv region were also hit, with fires, damaged residential buildings, and power outages reported across multiple areas.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a post to Telegram that the most significant damage was wrought in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv regions. At least six people were killed in Kyiv, and 11 people -- including a child -- were killed in Dnipro, local Ukrainian officials said.
“The main strike was on Kyiv, where dozens of residential buildings and other purely civilian infrastructure were damaged again,” Zelenskyy said.
Rescuers searching through the rubble of apartment buildings in the central city of Dnipro, where 16 people were killed, recovered the bodies of an eight-year-old boy and three women, regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said, adding that another child had been killed in the blast.
The attack “essentially demolished” part of the building, Zelenskyy wrote on X.
More than 90 people were injured across both cities, while Kharkiv in the northeast - which also saw its energy facilities and civilian infrastructure hit - reported 10 injured, including a child.
An industrial facility was also attacked further south in Zaporizhzhia as regions across the country were targeted, the president said.
For its part, Russia’s military admitted that it carried out a massive strike on targets in Ukraine with hypersonic missiles among the munitions. However, Moscow exonerated itself, as it always does, by claiming that it targeted Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, but residential buildings in several locations were impacted. The explanation does not reflect the truth based on what eyewitnesses on the ground reported. In one location, an entire apartment building was brought down by the bombardment.
At least nine people were killed in an attack on the southern industrial city of Dnipro, including one child, when a four-story apartment building collapsed, Zelenskyy said. The president said several people were still unaccounted for under the rubble.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said four people were killed and at least 58, including two children, were wounded in the mass Russian attack on the capital.
The buzz of drones could be heard between more than a dozen loud explosions as strikes made impact through the early morning.
The attack caused fires near a petrol station, a construction site, and several apartment blocks, as well as two houses, Klitschko said. Blackouts were also reported across the city.
The attack on Kyiv cut electricity to 140,000 residents, power company DTEK told Reuters, but utility workers restored power to 110,000 residents, DTEK added. More than 41,000 people - including almost 4,500 children - were sheltering underground in the Kyiv subway overnight, the metro company said in a statement. It added that this was a record number in recent years.
Ten people, including a child, were wounded in the city of Kharkiv, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
Ukraine’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Russia’s strikes on Kyiv and other cities show that Russian führer Putin is running out of military options in his years-long invasion of Ukraine.
“Putin is a war criminal and a loser who has no cards except terror. Moscow is losing on the battlefield. No number of missiles can change this,” Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said in a statement on social media.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, the chairman of the Ukrainian parliament, said in a post to X that the most serious damage in Kyiv was reported in the Podilskyi district, where a Russian strike collapsed a nine-story residential building. “People may still be trapped under the rubble,” Stefanchuk wrote.
Sybiha said in a post to X that Russia’s latest “horrific attack” showed that Putin "is a war criminal and loser who has no cards except terror."
This extreme classification should make all Western leaders ponder their next steps with regard to Russia’s more than four-year war against Ukraine. President Donald Trump should also forgo his tempered remarks against Putin and Russia.
The Ukrainian president has reiterated his call to allies to allow and finance the supply of Patriot missiles, which can intercept Russian ballistic missiles.
He wrote to President Trump and Congress last week, asking for Patriot systems to respond to the intensifying Russian air attacks.
On Tuesday, Zelenskyy called on Europe to develop its own air defense systems and urged more support from Washington after Russia's latest deadly drone and missile barrage.
“Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defence so that this war can finally be brought to an end. And assistance from the United States in supplying missiles for Patriot systems is absolutely necessary,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
Ukraine, in the meantime, has stepped up its strikes on occupied territories and on Russia in retaliation for the daily Russian bombardments.
Russia launched a record 8,150 long-range drones against Ukraine in May, an AFP analysis of Ukrainian air force data showed, up 24% from April. Kyiv intercepted about 90% of the incoming drones and missiles in May, according to air force data.
“We urgently need help from the United States in supplying missiles for Patriot systems,” Zelenskyy said, referring to interception hardware used to intercept Russian missiles.
Patriot missiles have been in short supply, exacerbated by the US and Israeli war against Iran.
“Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defense so that this war can finally end. And we urgently need help from the United States in supplying missiles for the Patriot systems. We count on the support of our partners and on effective responses to today's attack," the president wrote in a post to social media.
Since returning to power last year, Trump has also stopped direct supplies to Ukraine, so Kyiv’s European allies have been filling the gap by buying them from the U.S. before sending them to Ukraine.
On a Positive Note: Payback for Bucha
Russia’s war against Ukraine began four years ago with the Russian cutthroats bloody massacre of civilians in Bucha, a town on the invading road. As they say, payback is a bitch.
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) struck the training grounds and military camps of Russia’s 3rd and 36th Combined Arms Armies in an overnight drone operation on May 30, USF Commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi reported. According to reports from people in the know in Ukraine, Putin fears Brovdi more than he does the devil.
The attack also struck the positions of Russia’s 64th Separate Motorized Rifle brigade, one of the units responsible for the massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha during the early days of the full-scale invasion.
Ukrainian drone pilots carried out a “middle strike” against Russian military positions overnight, hitting the 3rd Army “Trokhizbenka” training grounds in occupied Luhansk Oblast and 36th Army “Prymorskyi Posad” training grounds in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Brovdi said. The latter camp was also used by the 64th brigade.
The military confirmed 21 total hits (13 and 8 at each target, respectively), Brovdi said.
You can always expect Russians to fulfill their promises - especially when it pertains to launching massive, deadly drone attacks against civilian targets across Ukraine.
After weeks of promising another round of airborne strikes against Ukrainian cities, as well as warnings by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russian drones and missiles finally flew precisely toward their targets. The capital of Kyiv was especially hit the hardest.
This attack was reported by a host of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian news media, including the key broadcasters in the US and the West.
Even though it was anticipated, Ukraine’s allies and supporters did very little to stave off the attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack constituted “a completely transparent statement from Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic and other missile strikes, these attacks will continue.”
Russia launched at least 656 drones and 73 missiles at Ukraine Monday night and into Tuesday morning, June 1-2, Ukraine’s Air Force said. Forty of the missiles and 602 drones were downed or neutralized, but 38 sites were hit, with Kyiv the main target, the Air Force elaborated.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russian forces launched Kalibr cruise missiles toward Ukraine from the Caspian Sea. The straight-line (air) distance from the closest northwestern shores of the Caspian Sea to Kyiv is approximately 700-900 kilometers.
Russia launched a massive combined missile and drone attack across Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring over 100 others. Kyiv reported 6 killed and 79 injured, including 3 children, while Dnipro reported 15 killed, including 2 children, and at least 37 wounded. Kharkiv and the Kyiv region were also hit, with fires, damaged residential buildings, and power outages reported across multiple areas.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said in a post to Telegram that the most significant damage was wrought in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv regions. At least six people were killed in Kyiv, and 11 people -- including a child -- were killed in Dnipro, local Ukrainian officials said.
“The main strike was on Kyiv, where dozens of residential buildings and other purely civilian infrastructure were damaged again,” Zelenskyy said.
Rescuers searching through the rubble of apartment buildings in the central city of Dnipro, where 16 people were killed, recovered the bodies of an eight-year-old boy and three women, regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said, adding that another child had been killed in the blast.
The attack “essentially demolished” part of the building, Zelenskyy wrote on X.
More than 90 people were injured across both cities, while Kharkiv in the northeast - which also saw its energy facilities and civilian infrastructure hit - reported 10 injured, including a child.
An industrial facility was also attacked further south in Zaporizhzhia as regions across the country were targeted, the president said.
For its part, Russia’s military admitted that it carried out a massive strike on targets in Ukraine with hypersonic missiles among the munitions. However, Moscow exonerated itself, as it always does, by claiming that it targeted Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, but residential buildings in several locations were impacted. The explanation does not reflect the truth based on what eyewitnesses on the ground reported. In one location, an entire apartment building was brought down by the bombardment.
At least nine people were killed in an attack on the southern industrial city of Dnipro, including one child, when a four-story apartment building collapsed, Zelenskyy said. The president said several people were still unaccounted for under the rubble.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said four people were killed and at least 58, including two children, were wounded in the mass Russian attack on the capital.
The buzz of drones could be heard between more than a dozen loud explosions as strikes made impact through the early morning.
The attack caused fires near a petrol station, a construction site, and several apartment blocks, as well as two houses, Klitschko said. Blackouts were also reported across the city.
The attack on Kyiv cut electricity to 140,000 residents, power company DTEK told Reuters, but utility workers restored power to 110,000 residents, DTEK added. More than 41,000 people - including almost 4,500 children - were sheltering underground in the Kyiv subway overnight, the metro company said in a statement. It added that this was a record number in recent years.
Ten people, including a child, were wounded in the city of Kharkiv, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
Ukraine’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Russia’s strikes on Kyiv and other cities show that Russian führer Putin is running out of military options in his years-long invasion of Ukraine.
“Putin is a war criminal and a loser who has no cards except terror. Moscow is losing on the battlefield. No number of missiles can change this,” Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said in a statement on social media.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, the chairman of the Ukrainian parliament, said in a post to X that the most serious damage in Kyiv was reported in the Podilskyi district, where a Russian strike collapsed a nine-story residential building. “People may still be trapped under the rubble,” Stefanchuk wrote.
Sybiha said in a post to X that Russia’s latest “horrific attack” showed that Putin "is a war criminal and loser who has no cards except terror."
This extreme classification should make all Western leaders ponder their next steps with regard to Russia’s more than four-year war against Ukraine. President Donald Trump should also forgo his tempered remarks against Putin and Russia.
The Ukrainian president has reiterated his call to allies to allow and finance the supply of Patriot missiles, which can intercept Russian ballistic missiles.
He wrote to President Trump and Congress last week, asking for Patriot systems to respond to the intensifying Russian air attacks.
On Tuesday, Zelenskyy called on Europe to develop its own air defense systems and urged more support from Washington after Russia's latest deadly drone and missile barrage.
“Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defence so that this war can finally be brought to an end. And assistance from the United States in supplying missiles for Patriot systems is absolutely necessary,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
Ukraine, in the meantime, has stepped up its strikes on occupied territories and on Russia in retaliation for the daily Russian bombardments.
Russia launched a record 8,150 long-range drones against Ukraine in May, an AFP analysis of Ukrainian air force data showed, up 24% from April. Kyiv intercepted about 90% of the incoming drones and missiles in May, according to air force data.
“We urgently need help from the United States in supplying missiles for Patriot systems,” Zelenskyy said, referring to interception hardware used to intercept Russian missiles.
Patriot missiles have been in short supply, exacerbated by the US and Israeli war against Iran.
“Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defense so that this war can finally end. And we urgently need help from the United States in supplying missiles for the Patriot systems. We count on the support of our partners and on effective responses to today's attack," the president wrote in a post to social media.
Since returning to power last year, Trump has also stopped direct supplies to Ukraine, so Kyiv’s European allies have been filling the gap by buying them from the U.S. before sending them to Ukraine.
On a Positive Note: Payback for Bucha
Russia’s war against Ukraine began four years ago with the Russian cutthroats bloody massacre of civilians in Bucha, a town on the invading road. As they say, payback is a bitch.
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) struck the training grounds and military camps of Russia’s 3rd and 36th Combined Arms Armies in an overnight drone operation on May 30, USF Commander Robert “Magyar” Brovdi reported. According to reports from people in the know in Ukraine, Putin fears Brovdi more than he does the devil.
The attack also struck the positions of Russia’s 64th Separate Motorized Rifle brigade, one of the units responsible for the massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha during the early days of the full-scale invasion.
Ukrainian drone pilots carried out a “middle strike” against Russian military positions overnight, hitting the 3rd Army “Trokhizbenka” training grounds in occupied Luhansk Oblast and 36th Army “Prymorskyi Posad” training grounds in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Brovdi said. The latter camp was also used by the 64th brigade.
The military confirmed 21 total hits (13 and 8 at each target, respectively), Brovdi said.
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