Overnight on 10 June, Russia launched one of the war’s largest air attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, also targeting Odesa, killing at least three people and injuring over a dozen, according to local authorities.
The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed that Russia launched 322 aerial weapons, including 315 Shahed drones and decoy UAVs, two North Korean-supplied KN-23 ballistic missiles from Voronezh Oblast, and five Iskander-K cruise missiles from Kursk Oblast.
Of these, Ukraine’s air defenses reportedly destroyed 284 targets: 213 Shahed drones, two ballistic missiles, and five cruise missiles, while 64 drones were jammed or lost from radar tracking.
The Air Force’s data suggest that at least 38 Russian drones may have hit their intended targets.
11 locations were hit, while drone debris crashed in 16 locations, according to the report.
Kyiv: Unprecedented strike on the capital
Kyiv was the primary target of Moscow’s air assault last night. Russia targeted Kyiv with an intense wave of aerial attacks overnight on 10 June, causing major fires and destruction across eight city districts.
The attack killed a woman in the Obolonskyi District and injured four men of various ages. Two remain hospitalized while two were treated on site, according to Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko and the Kyiv City Military Administration (KMVA).
Several residential buildings, businesses, a stadium, and infrastructure were damaged in the Darnytskyi, Obolonskyi, Holosiivskyi, Desnianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Podilskyi, Solomianskyi, and Dniprovskyi districts. In Obolonskyi, a helicopter was deployed to extinguish a major fire.
Debris damaged homes, cars, a sanatorium, and even a former consulate building of a European country, which caught fire. Though long out of use, the building was occupied by a guard and several animals—all survived.
In Shevchenkivskyi, the 11th-century St. Sophia’s Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, sustained damage to its main apse cornice due to the blast wave. Culture Minister Mykola Tochytskyi confirmed the damage.
Police reported that a drone detonated near a patrol vehicle responding to the attack, injuring one officer with shrapnel. The incident is being investigated as part of a broader criminal case into the attack.
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Odesa: Moscow targeted three medical facilities
The southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on the Black Sea coast also came under heavy drone attack. Odesa Oblast Military Administration (OVA) head Oleh Kiper reported two civilian deaths and nine injuries. One of those killed by Russia was a 59-year-old man. Among the injured were five women and three men, while another woman suffered an acute stress reaction. Four of the wounded were hospitalized with moderate injuries.
A maternity ward, private medical clinic, sports facility, zoo, and a central railway station building were damaged. Though no casualties were reported in the maternity hospital strike, all staff and patients were evacuated in time. In total, over 10 drones were used in the attack on Odesa.
An administrative building of the emergency medical services station was completely destroyed, with ambulances also damaged. Fires broke out across multiple locations in the city center. City authorities confirmed that residential buildings were hit, with initial reports of at least one woman killed and three hospitalized.
Cherkasy Oblast
Elsewhere, Cherkasy Oblast’s chief Ihor Taburets confirmed that local air defense shot down 15 Russian drones overnight. No injuries or infrastructure damage were reported.