Huge Russian strikes on Kyiv leave 17 dead as attacks spill over to Romanian and Moldovan territory

At least 17 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a “massive” Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight and on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said.

Attacks also bled into Moldova and Romania on Thursday. Romania said an explosive-laden naval drone believed to have been launched by Russia targeted one of its offshore natural gas projects.

In the Ukrainian capital, strikes damaged a hospital, a school, a preschool, residential buildings and several warehouses across the city, local authorities said, as the destruction of civilian infrastructure also drew sharp international condemnation.

CNN producers in Kyiv heard several explosions and saw smoke over the city, as an air raid alert stretched on for hours. Massive fires lit up the night sky over the capital, video by Reuters news agency showed.

The attacks on Kyiv continued during the day as three separate air raid alarms sounded in the capital on Thursday.

Ukraine has been relatively successful at intercepting the massive numbers of drones that Russia uses in its large-scale attacks. But in recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly exploited Kyiv’s near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles, which are needed to defend against faster-moving ballistic missiles.

Ukraine only has 10% of the interceptor missiles it urgently needs from the United States and other allies, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an interview earlier this month.

“This year we have two and a half times less interceptors than we had in 2025,” Zelensky said in that interview. “Russia has two times more ballistic missiles per month than they had before.”

Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Toiu said European allies are “analyzing” how they can support Ukraine’s air defense, but acknowledged that they’re not doing enough collectively.

“And this is something that is very obvious, not just by the increase in the attacks of Russian drones, but also by the weaker air defense that is currently in place,” she told CNN’s Jim Sciutto.

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Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday on Telegram that it had launched a “massive strike using high-precision weapons” against military facilities, a transport and logistics center, and warehouses in the city of Kyiv and the broader region.

Zelensky said on Thursday that “the Russians prepared for a long time and combined various types of projectiles, cruise missiles, and drones to inflict as much damage as possible on civilian infrastructure.”

Rescue workers had pulled two people from the rubble and were continuing to deal with the aftermath of the assault, hampered by the ongoing attacks. More than a dozen locations across the city were impacted , emergency services said. Firefighters were working to extinguish massive blazes.

“The missiles narrowly missed us by about 10 minutes,” local Kyiv resident Anastasiia Kovtun, 31, told Reuters. She and her neighbors fled to a bomb shelter in a nearby parking garage. “By the time we were on our way back, the entire road had already been bombed, and all the buildings along the route were damaged.”

Windows were shattered at a children’s hospital in the Solomianskyi district, said Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko.

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Outside of Kyiv, Russia also attacked gas infrastructure in the Chernihiv region and a border crossing with Moldova in the Odesa region, Zelensky said.

Other drone attacks and shelling hit the regions of Zhytomyr, Kherson, Kharkiv and Donetsk. In total, in the last 24 hours, the death toll in Ukraine has reached 25 people, with a further 132 injured throughout the country, according to reports from regional military administrations.

During the attacks on Ukraine, Romania’s defense ministry said a Russian drone had crashed into its territory, landing in an uninhabited area in the county of Tulcea, near the Ukrainian border, Reuters reported. Russian drones have repeatedly breached Romanian airspace throughout the war.

The defense ministry later added that it scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to destroy a marine drone that was carrying explosives near a Romanian offshore natural gas project.

Foreign Minister Toiu said Romania holds Russia “responsible for the risks that they pose” in the Black Sea and to the country’s energy infrastructure.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the naval drone an example of “hybrid warfare” and said that “an escalating campaign of threats is underway, unsettling our citizens and seeking to divide our Union.”

Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu, also said on Thursday that her country’s airspace was once again violated as “a drone came down on Moldovan territory. Russia must face far greater pressure to stop this.”

Meanwhile, Poland said it had started preventative military aviation operations to protect its airspace during the strikes, Reuters reported.

While Moscow has been striking Ukraine near-nightly , Kyiv has also ramped up its offensive, launching more than 800 drones at Russia Sunday in one of its largest aerial attacks of the conflict.

Russia’s state-run TASS News said it was the largest Ukrainian drone attack since the beginning of the year – with many of the drones targeting the Moscow area where many of Russia’s elite reside.

On Tuesday, Russia’s defense ministry said it intercepted and destroyed 791 Ukrainian drones overnight, in another major assault launched by Kyiv.

CNN’s Amy Croffey contributed to this report.

乌克兰当局称，俄罗斯于周四凌晨对基辅及其周边地区发动“大规模”袭击，造成至少 17 人死亡，数十人受伤。

周四，袭击事件也波及摩尔多瓦和罗马尼亚。罗马尼亚方面称，一架据信由俄罗斯发射的装载爆炸物的海军无人机袭击了该国的一个海上天然气项目。

乌克兰首都基辅当地政府表示，空袭破坏了该市的一家医院、一所学校、一所幼儿园、多栋住宅楼和几个仓库，而对民用基础设施的破坏也招致了国际社会的强烈谴责。

CNN驻基辅记者听到数次爆炸声，并看到城市上空浓烟滚滚，空袭警报持续数小时。路透社发布的视频显示，首都上空燃起熊熊大火，照亮了夜空。

周四，基辅继续遭受袭击，首都响起了三次空袭警报。

乌克兰在拦截俄罗斯大规模袭击中使用的数量庞大的无人机方面取得了相对成功。但最近几周，莫斯科屡次利用基辅几乎耗尽的“爱国者”拦截导弹库存，而这些导弹是防御速度更快的弹道导弹所必需的。

乌克兰总统泽连斯基本月早些时候在接受 CNN 采访时表示，乌克兰目前仅从美国和其他盟友那里获得了其急需的拦截导弹的 10%。

泽连斯基在采访中说：“今年我们的拦截弹数量比2025年少了2.5倍。俄罗斯每月发射的弹道导弹数量是以前的两倍。”

罗马尼亚外交部长奥娜·托尤表示，欧洲盟国正在“分析”如何支持乌克兰的防空力量，但她也承认，他们集体的努力还不够。

“这一点非常明显，不仅体现在俄罗斯无人机袭击的增加，也体现在目前较弱的防空能力上，”她告诉 CNN 的吉姆·夏托。

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俄罗斯国防部周四在 Telegram 上表示，已对基辅市及周边地区的军事设施、运输物流中心和仓库发动了“使用高精度武器的大规模打击”。

泽连斯基周四表示，“俄罗斯人准备了很长时间，并将各种类型的炮弹、巡航导弹和无人机结合起来，以尽可能地破坏民用基础设施。”

救援人员已从废墟中救出两人，并继续处理袭击事件的善后工作，但持续不断的袭击阻碍了他们的救援行动。紧急服务部门表示，全市十几个地点受到影响。消防员正在努力扑灭大火。

“导弹离我们只有大约10分钟的距离，”31岁的基辅居民阿纳斯塔西娅·科夫顿告诉路透社。她和邻居们逃到了附近停车场的防空洞里。“等我们返回时，整条路已经被炸毁了，沿途的所有建筑物都遭到了破坏。”

基辅市长维塔利·克利奇科表示，索洛米扬斯基区一家儿童医院的窗户被砸碎。

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泽连斯基说，除了基辅之外，俄罗斯还袭击了切尔尼戈夫地区的天然气基础设施和敖德萨地区与摩尔多瓦接壤的边境口岸。

其他无人机袭击和炮击事件还波及了日托米尔、赫尔松、哈尔科夫和顿涅茨克等地区。据地区军事部门报告，过去24小时内，乌克兰全国死亡人数已达25人，另有132人受伤。

据路透社报道，在对乌克兰的袭击期间，罗马尼亚国防部称一架俄罗斯无人机坠入其领空，降落在图尔恰县靠近乌克兰边境的一处无人居住区。在整个战争期间，俄罗斯无人机曾多次侵犯罗马尼亚领空。

国防部随后补充说，他们紧急出动了两架 F-16 战斗机，摧毁了一架在罗马尼亚近海天然气项目附近携带炸药的海上无人机。

罗马尼亚外交部长托尤表示，罗马尼亚认为俄罗斯应对其在黑海和该国能源基础设施中“构成的风险”负责。

欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩称这架海军无人机是“混合战争”的一个例子，并表示“一场不断升级的威胁行动正在进行，这令我们的公民感到不安，并试图分裂我们的联盟”。

摩尔多瓦总统玛雅·桑杜周四也表示，该国领空再次遭到侵犯，“一架无人机坠落在摩尔多瓦领土上。俄罗斯必须面临更大的压力才能停止这种行为。”

据路透社报道，波兰方面表示，已启动预防性军事航空行动，以在空袭期间保护其领空。

尽管莫斯科几乎每晚都对乌克兰发动袭击，基辅也加大了攻势，周日向俄罗斯发射了 800 多架无人机，这是冲突中规模最大的一次空袭。

俄罗斯官方通讯社塔斯社称，这是今年以来乌克兰发动的最大规模无人机袭击——许多无人机的目标是莫斯科地区，那里居住着许多俄罗斯精英人士。

周二，俄罗斯国防部表示，在基辅发起的另一次大规模袭击中，俄罗斯连夜拦截并摧毁了 791 架乌克兰无人机。

CNN的艾米·克罗菲对本报道亦有贡献。