Kyiv hit overnight: a residential building and the South Bridge targeted by Russian drones

A 25-storey residential building in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv was damaged overnight in a Russian attack that caused one casualty. In the same wave of attacks, two other people were killed in the Bogodukhiv district, in the Kharkiv region. Kyiv’s military administration and the city’s Prosecutor’s Office provided the first confirmations of an attack that hit the Ukrainian capital and an area in the north-east of the country within the same time frame.

In addition to the residential building, Russian Shahed drones repeatedly struck Kyiv’s South Bridge overnight, the infrastructure crossing the Dnipro river, forcing authorities to close it to traffic. This is an infrastructural target separate from the attack on the Darnytskyi district, which was hit separately during the same night of raids.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the attack involved more than one hundred drones launched against the country, of which nearly fifty were equipped with jet propulsion — a technical detail the Ukrainian president highlighted in describing the scale of the overnight offensive. The figure provided by Zelensky refers to the overall number of drones used in the nationwide attack, not solely to the toll in Kyiv.

The three elements making up the picture of the night — the building hit in Darnytskyi, the casualties in the Bogodukhiv district and the repeated strikes on the South Bridge — were reported separately by the sources consulted, with no direct link emerging between the different targets beyond their belonging to the same wave of overnight attacks. The closure of the Dnipro bridge to traffic remains confirmed, while the casualty toll reported by Ukrainian sources is, at this stage, the one provided by Kyiv’s military administration and the city’s Prosecutor’s Office.