Just hours after a long-awaited prisoner swap kindled cautious hope, Russia unleashed one of the most intense attacks on Kyiv in over three years.
Fourteen ballistic missiles struck the city.
Two hundred fifty drones. A night lit up not by fireworks, but fear.
Ukrainian defenses shot down much of the barrage, but not all.
Fifteen people were injured—two of them children.
Residents fled to subway stations as missile debris hit six districts, damaging homes and shattering any illusion of calm.
“To bomb people like this…” sighed Olha Chyrukha, 64, standing outside her wrecked apartment.
What’s The Response?
The attack came right after both sides began exchanging prisoners—1,000 in total—in what was seen as the first step toward a ceasefire.
But President Zelenskyy, after surveying the destruction, didn’t mince words: “Ukraine has proposed peace many times… all ignored.”
Russia, meanwhile, claimed fresh military gains and promised to send Ukraine a “peace memorandum.”
But not before it finished sending missiles.
As diplomats talk and leaders posture, civilians are still dodging shrapnel.
