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Russia launched its hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile in an attack on Bila Tserkva, a city in the Kyiv region, as confirmed by President Volodymyr Zelensky. The strike resulted in at least two deaths and 56 injuries, with damage reported in 40 locations across the city.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported that the combined attack involved 600 strike drones and 90 various missiles, with air defences successfully neutralising 549 drones and 55 missiles. The assault resulted in damage across 40 locations in Kyiv, including residential buildings and a school, highlighting the extensive impact on civilian infrastructure.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the use of Russia’s hypersonic Oreshnik missile in strikes on Kyiv and Bila Tserkva, resulting in at least two fatalities and numerous injuries. In response, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported extensive damage across the city, including to residential and school buildings, as officials warn of ongoing threats and the potential for further missile attacks.
What remains unclear — It is not confirmed how many of the 90 launched missiles reached their intended targets.
Russia uses hypersonic Oreshnik missile in attack on Kyiv, killing two
Russia has used its hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile in an attack on Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced.
In a post on Telegram on Sunday, he said Russia struck the city of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region with the missile, which is capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads.
Russia’s defence ministry later confirmed it used the Oreshnik, as well as other missile types, to strike Ukrainian ‘military command and control facilities’, air bases and military industrial enterprises.
The ministry said the attack was a retaliation following Ukrainian strikes on ‘civilian facilities on Russian territory’.
It marks the third time the missile – which Russian President Vladimir Putin has said reaches up to 10 times the speed of sound and is capable of destroying underground bunkers – has been used in Ukraine.
At least two people were killed and 56 people were injured as air raid sirens blared through the night into Sunday as smoke billowed across the city from the strikes.
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Air raid sirens echoed through the night (Picture: e2w)
The combined attack included 600 strike drones and 90 air, sea and ground-launched missiles, according to Ukraine’s Air Force.
It said Ukrainian air defences destroyed and jammed 549 drones and 55 missiles, and around 19 missiles failed to reach targets.
Zelensky had earlier warned that Russia was planning to use the Oreshnik missile, citing intelligence from the US and Western partners.
Damage was recorded in 40 locations across several districts of the city, including residential buildings, Kyiv military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said in a Telegram post.
Kyiv resident Svitlana Onofryichuk, 55, said: ‘It was a terrible night, and there had never been anything like it in the entire war.
‘I am very sorry that I have to say goodbye to Kyiv now, I am not staying there anymore, there is no possibility. My job is gone, everything is gone, everything has burned down.’
Missile remnants were on a playground in Kyiv this morning (Picture: e2w)
Yevhen Zosin, 74, who witnessed the attack, said the moment he heard an explosion, he rushed to save his dog.
‘Then there was another explosion, and she and I were thrown back like a pin by the shock wave. We both survived, she and I. My apartment was blown to pieces,’ he said.
In Kyiv’s Shevchenko district, a five-storey residential building was hit, which caused a fire, and one person was killed, Ukraine’s state emergency service reported.
A school building was damaged by an attack while people sheltered inside, Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said. Local authorities reported supermarkets and warehouses across the city were also damaged.
Russia first used the multiple-warhead Oreshnik on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024. It was used a second time in January in the western Lviv region.
President Vladimir Putin has said the weapon travels ‘like a meteorite’ and is immune to any missile defence system, adding that several such missiles, even fitted with conventional warheads, could be as devastating as a nuclear strike.
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