Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv kills 6, injures at least 35

Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Kyiv early Friday, killing six people, leaving gaping holes in apartment buildings and starting fires as the sound of explosions boomed across the city and lit up the night sky. A pregnant woman was among at least 35 people wounded, Ukrainian authorities said.

Russia used at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in the nighttime attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Russia has waged a devastating aerial campaign against Ukraine since its all-out invasion of its neighbor nearly four years ago. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts this year to stop the fighting have so far come to nothing.

Friday’s aerial assault, which also targeted Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the northeast, was mostly aimed at Kyiv, where drones and missiles smashed into high-rise apartment blocks, according to Zelenskyy.

It was “a specially calculated attack to cause as much harm as possible to people and civilians,” he said in a post on Telegram.

Moscow denies targeting civilian areas, with the Russian Defense Ministry saying Friday it carried out an overnight strike on Ukraine’s “military-industrial and energy facilities.” Ukrainian officials scoff at those claims, showing repeated damage to homes and public buildings.

The attack was the biggest on Kyiv in almost three weeks. Most recent Russian aerial attacks have aimed at electricity infrastructure around the country ahead of the bitter winter months.

Ukraine used its American-made Patriot air defense systems to repel the attack and shot down 14 missiles, Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian leader has pleaded with foreign supporters to send more of the sophisticated systems.

Top European defense officials meeting in Berlin on Friday vowed to keep up their support for Ukraine. Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal joined the meeting remotely.

The Azerbaijan Embassy in Kyiv was damaged by debris from an Iskander missile — a development that Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said was “unacceptable.” Azerbaijan is a key transport corridor for Russia’s trade with Iran and other partners in the Middle East.

In the Odesa region, Russian drones struck a busy street on market day in Chornomorsk, killing two people and wounding 11 others, including a 19-month-old girl, regional military administration chief Oleh Kiper said.

‘My hair was on fire’

Kyiv residents told of harrowing escapes and near misses in the dead of night.

Mariia Kalchenko said it was a miracle she survived after her building was hit.

“I didn’t hear anything, I just realized that my hair was on fire,” the 46-year-old volunteer rescue dog handler told The Associated Press.

She turned on her flashlight and saw that her dog had moved away in fright. “I turned around and saw that there was no wall, and there was a neighbor’s apartment, the neighbor was screaming, there was no door, and the flames were going from the front door into the apartment,” she said.

People hide in a metro station, being used as a bomb shelter, during a Russian drones attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov. 14, 2025. (Dan Bashakov/AP)

Oleh Hudyma, 59, said he became aware of the attack and intended to go to a bomb shelter but she wasn’t quick enough.

“I got up, got dressed, went out, and there was an explosion. I couldn’t hear the (drone) engine running, just an explosion, flames, everything flew,” he said. “I was in the kitchen and just fell to the floor.”

Iryna Synyavska, 62, said three people were killed in two apartments next to hers.

“My neighbor and his father were killed by the ceiling that collapsed. In the next door (apartment), an elderly woman lived there, she was over 80,” Synyavska said. “Her daughter was visiting her. Her body was only just recovered because the walls fell down.”

Eight of the capital’s 10 districts reported damage. In the wider Kyiv region, Russian strikes damaged critical infrastructure, the head of the regional military administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, said.

Russia accuses Ukraine of hitting civilian sites

Ukraine has responded by launching its own domestically developed drones and missiles against targets on Russian soil, especially oil refineries and depots that provide Moscow with income and manufacturing plants that supply the armed forces.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that its air defense forces shot down 216 Ukrainian drones overnight over a number of Russian regions, including the annexed Crimea. It did not mention missiles.

However, Zelenskyy said Ukraine used a modification of domestically produced Neptune missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of hitting civilian facilities and claimed the overnight strike on Kyiv came in response to that.

Over 60 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the southern Krasnodar region that borders Crimea, according to the Defense Ministry. A total of 45 drones were destroyed over the Saratov region deeper inside Russia, while another 19 were shot down over Crimea.

Attack on Russia’s Novorossiysk port

In Novorossiysk, a port city in the Krasnodar region, an attack damaged an oil depot at the Sheskharis transshipment complex, as well as unidentified “coastal structures,” local authorities said.

A source in Ukraine’s Security Service confirmed the Novorossiysk attack to The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

Novorossiysk is the second biggest port in Russia for oil exports, the source said, adding that the attack damaged oil-loading stands at the piers, pipeline infrastructure and the units, sparking a large fire.

Ukraine also struck the positions of a S-300/S-400 air defense system in Novorossiysk, the source said.

Falling drone debris also damaged a civilian vessel in the port, and three crew members were hospitalized with injuries, Russian officials said. Several residential buildings were also damaged, and a man from one of those buildings was hospitalized with injuries, officials said.

In the Saratov region, Gov. Roman Busargin said that the attack damage unspecified “civilian infrastructure.” Unconfirmed media reports said that an oil refinery was hit.

Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.

周五凌晨，俄罗斯对基辅发动大规模导弹和无人机袭击，造成6人死亡，公寓楼被炸出巨大窟窿，爆炸声响彻全城，照亮夜空。乌克兰当局称，至少35人受伤，其中包括一名孕妇。

乌克兰总统泽连斯基表示，俄罗斯在夜间袭击中使用了至少 430 架无人机和 18 枚导弹。

自近四年前全面入侵乌克兰以来，俄罗斯对乌克兰发动了毁灭性的空袭。今年美国主导的旨在制止战乱的外交努力迄今尚未取得任何成果。

据泽连斯基称，周五的空袭也波及南部的敖德萨和东北部的哈尔科夫，但主要目标是基辅，无人机和导弹袭击了那里的高层公寓楼。

他在 Telegram 上发帖称，这是一起“精心策划的袭击，旨在对民众和平民造成尽可能多的伤害”。

莫斯科否认以平民区为目标，俄罗斯国防部周五表示，已对乌克兰的“军工和能源设施”进行了夜间袭击。乌克兰官员对这些说法嗤之以鼻，并展示了民居和公共建筑屡遭破坏的痕迹。

这是近三周以来基辅遭受的最大规模袭击。俄罗斯最近的空袭大多针对全国各地的电力基础设施，以应对即将到来的严冬。

泽连斯基表示，乌克兰动用了美国制造的“爱国者”防空系统击退了此次袭击，并击落了14枚导弹。这位乌克兰领导人已恳请外国支持者提供更多此类先进系统。

周五在柏林举行的欧洲高级防务官员会议誓言将继续支持乌克兰。乌克兰国防部长杰尼斯·什米加尔远程参加了会议。

阿塞拜疆驻基辅大使馆遭到“伊斯坎德尔”导弹碎片袭击，阿塞拜疆总统伊利哈姆·阿利耶夫称此事“令人无法接受”。阿塞拜疆是俄罗斯与伊朗及其他中东伙伴进行贸易的重要运输通道。

敖德萨地区军事行政长官奥列格·基佩尔表示，俄罗斯无人机在切尔诺莫尔斯克集市日袭击了一条繁忙的街道，造成两人死亡，11人受伤，其中包括一名19个月大的女孩。

“我的头发着火了”

基辅居民讲述了他们在深夜惊险逃生和死里逃生的经历。

玛丽亚·卡尔琴科说，她的大楼被击中后，她能活下来简直是个奇迹。

“我什么也没听到，只意识到我的头发着火了，”这位 46 岁的志愿搜救犬训导员告诉美联社。

她打开手电筒，看到她的狗受惊跑开了。“我转过身，看到墙没了，眼前是邻居的公寓，邻居在尖叫，门也没了，火焰正从前门窜进公寓里，”她说。

2025年11月14日，在乌克兰基辅，人们躲在被用作防空洞的地铁站内，当时俄罗斯无人机正在发动袭击。（丹·巴沙科夫/美联社）

59岁的奥列赫·胡迪马说，他得知袭击发生后打算去防空洞，但速度不够快。

“我起床穿好衣服，走到外面，然后就听到一声爆炸。我听不到（无人机）引擎的声音，只有爆炸声、火焰，所有东西都飞了起来，”他说。“我当时在厨房，然后就倒在了地上。”

62岁的伊琳娜·西尼亚夫斯卡说，在她家隔壁的两套公寓里，有三人遇难。

“我的邻居和他的父亲被坍塌的天花板砸死了。隔壁公寓住着一位八十多岁的老太太，”西尼亚夫斯卡说。“她的女儿当时正在探望她。由于墙壁倒塌，她的遗体才刚刚被找到。”

首都基辅的10个区中有8个报告受损。基辅州军事管理局局长米科拉·卡拉什尼克表示，在更广泛的基辅州地区，俄罗斯的空袭破坏了关键基础设施。

俄罗斯指责乌克兰袭击平民目标

乌克兰的回应是向俄罗斯境内的目标发射了其自主研发的无人机和导弹，特别是向为莫斯科提供收入的炼油厂和油库，以及为武装部队提供物资的制造厂。

俄罗斯国防部周五表示，其防空部队一夜之间在包括被吞并的克里米亚在内的多个俄罗斯地区上空击落了216架乌克兰无人机。国防部没有提及导弹。

然而，泽连斯基表示，乌克兰使用了国产“海王星”导弹的改进型，打击了俄罗斯境内纵深目标。俄罗斯国防部指责乌克兰袭击民用设施，并声称对基辅的夜间空袭是对乌克兰袭击的回应。

据俄罗斯国防部消息，在与克里米亚接壤的南部克拉斯诺达尔边疆区上空，超过60架乌克兰无人机被拦截。其中45架无人机在俄罗斯内陆萨拉托夫地区上空被摧毁，另有19架无人机在克里米亚上空被击落。

俄罗斯新罗西斯克港遇袭

据当地政府称，在克拉斯诺达尔边疆区的港口城市新罗西斯克，谢斯哈里斯转运综合体的石油仓库遭到袭击，一些身份不明的“沿海建筑”也遭到破坏。

乌克兰安全部门的一名消息人士向美联社证实了新罗西斯克袭击事件，该消息人士要求匿名，因为他没有被授权公开谈论此事。

消息人士称，新罗西斯克是俄罗斯第二大石油出口港，袭击破坏了码头的石油装载站、管道基础设施和相关设施，引发了一场大火。

消息人士称，乌克兰还袭击了新罗西斯克的一处 S-300/S-400 防空系统阵地。

俄罗斯官员称，坠落的无人机碎片还损坏了港口内的一艘民用船只，船上三名船员受伤入院。此外，数栋居民楼也遭到破坏，其中一栋楼里的一名男子受伤入院。

萨拉托夫州州长罗曼·布萨尔金表示，袭击破坏了未指明的“民用基础设施”。未经证实的媒体报道称，一家炼油厂遭到袭击。

乌克兰基辅的伊利亚·诺维科夫和德国柏林的盖尔·穆尔森对本报道亦有贡献。