Massive destruction, 14 dead and many injured in Ukraine after Russian night attack (photo)

Kateryna Hirnyk, Larisa Kozova08:12, 25.05.25

There are deaths in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi regions.

Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine with drones and missiles last night . According to the State Emergency Service , large-scale destruction has been recorded in many regions, with many dead and injured.

Updated 9.25. According to updated data from the National Police , four people were killed and 23 others were injured in the Kyiv region as a result of a hostile attack. Six of the injured were children.

In Kyiv, 11 residents were injured in the attack, three were hospitalized.

Updated 8.30.  According to the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Odessa region , a drone attack caused a fire in a parking lot located among residential multi-storey buildings last night. Rescuers note that 20 cars were on fire. The fire was quickly extinguished and prevented from spreading to densely parked cars nearby, but many cars were completely burned.  

photo of the State Emergency Service
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According to preliminary data, no people in Odessa were injured that night.

Updated 8.10. In Zhytomyr region, 3 children – 8, 12 and 17 years old – were killed as a result of a hostile attack. Another 12 people were injured.

Kyiv and Kyiv region

According to the State Emergency Service, 9 people were injured in Kyiv. In Holosiivskyi district, a fire broke out on the facade of a 5-story dormitory due to a gas pipe leak on the 2nd floor, 4 people were injured. In Dniprovskyi district, a 2-story private house was damaged, a woman was injured. In Shevchenkivskyi district, a high-rise building was damaged, 3 people sought help.

Three people died in a hostile attack in the Kyiv region , the regional administration reported .

Two people were discovered while extinguishing a fire in the Obukhiv district, and another person was found in Buchansky.

A total of 10 victims are recorded. In particular, in the Bila Tserkva district, a man born in 1966 received shrapnel wounds to the face. Also in the Bila Tserkva district, 5 more people were injured, including two children. Two women were injured in the Fastiv district, and two more people were injured in the Buchan district.

In general, the consequences of the enemy attack are recorded in the Brovarsky, Bila Tserkva, Buchansky, and Obukhivsky districts of the region.

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Ternopil region . During the attack in Ternopil, as a result of a preliminary hit by a “Caliber” cruise missile, the building of one of the industrial enterprises was partially damaged, a fire broke out in the workshop in separate cells on a total area of ​​1,000 sq.m. No information was received about the victims.

Mykolaiv region. As a result of a nighttime UAV attack , a five-story residential building in Mykolaiv was hit , a fire broke out, and there are dead and injured people.

As of 06:00, rescuers unblocked the body of a deceased man born in 1948. 5 people were injured, including a teenager.

Two floors of the building were destroyed, the others were damaged, two women were rescued from the rubble, one was hospitalized in serious condition.

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Khmelnytskyi region.  According to the head of the regional administration, Serhiy Tyurin, civilian infrastructure in the region has been destroyed, there are dead and injured.

According to preliminary information, four people were killed, five more people received shrapnel wounds and are in hospital, one of them in serious condition.

Six private residential buildings were destroyed, more than 20 houses were damaged, windows in an educational institution and public transport were also damaged.

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Sumy region. Konotop Mayor Artem Semenikhin noted that the city has experienced “the most massive combined blow since World War II.” According to him, an already destroyed city infrastructure facility in one of the neighborhoods has been destroyed. No destruction or damage to the residential sector has been recorded as of this moment. 

Chernihiv region . As a result of an air attack using UAVs and missiles, several hits were recorded in different areas, warehouses and non-residential buildings were set on fire. The largest fire covered more than 1,000 sq.m., a coal hangar and a non-residential building were also burning. The regional center was also hit – the building was damaged.

War in Ukraine – news

BILD reported that Russian occupation forces could launch a new offensive in June 2025.  Three regions of Ukraine are under threat – Kharkiv, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk.

Meanwhile, the monitoring project DeepState reports that Russian troops have managed to  gain a foothold in the Sumy region . The enemy has established control over four villages near the border and the territory around them.

(C)UNIAN 2025

2 comments

  1. MURDERERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    RASHIST TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ABOMINATIONS OF DESOLATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    😠😤🤬

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