Firefighters tackle a fire caused by a Russian ballistic missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, 25 October 2025. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
At least four people were killed and 16 more injured in Russian aerial strikes on Ukraine overnight, regional authorities said on Saturday.
Two people were killed and nine were injured in Kyiv, according to the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Tymur Tkachenko. Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that the strike was carried out using ballistic missiles and led to the outbreak of “large fires” in several non-residential buildings.
The strikes came just days after a previous attack that killed six people in Kyiv and the surrounding region and which left thousands across Ukraine without power.
In the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Vladyslav Haivanenko said two people had been killed and seven more had been injured in overnight Russian strikes on the village of Petropavlivka, to the southeast of the regional capital Dnipro.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said that one of the victims in Petropavlivka was a firefighter who was killed when Russia launched a second strike while emergency crews were still responding to the first.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russia had launched a total of 62 attack drones and nine ballistic missiles at the country overnight, with air raid warnings continuing into Saturday morning. Air defences downed four of the missiles and 50 drones, it said, but strikes by five missiles and 12 drones were recorded at 11 locations.
For its part, Russia’s Defence Ministry said that its air defences had intercepted a total of 121 Ukrainian drones over 14 regions overnight, including seven drones that were approaching Moscow.
Andrey Bocharov, governor of the Volgograd region in southern Russia, said falling debris from a downed drone had caused a fire to break out at the Balashovskaya electrical substation — the second time it has been damaged by Ukrainian drones this month.
Moscow news outlet MNS also reported that Ukrainian forces had used HIMARS missiles to strike the dam of a reservoir supplying the western Russian city of Belgorod, but Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov made no mention of damage to the facility in a Telegram post on Saturday morning.
