Russia pounds Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing eight and hitting energy sites

Record ID: 2277466

  • Title: Russia pounds Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing eight and hitting energy sites
  • Date: 14th November 2025
  • Summary: KYIV, UKRAINE (NOVEMBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DAMAGED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING WITH SMOKE RISING FROM BURNT APARTMENTS VARIOUS OF RESCUERS CARRYING DEAD BODY ON STRETCHER IN BLACK BODY BAG RESCUE WORKERS CONSOLING WOMAN IN TEARS STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE PSYCHOLOGIST STANDING NEXT TO WOMAN  PARAMEDICS AND RESCUE CONSOLING WOMAN VARIOUS OF RESCUERS CARRYING DEAD BODY ON
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  • Keywords: AIR STRIKE DEAD BODIES DRONE ATTACK KLITSCHKO KYIV RUSSAIN ATTCK RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR RUSSIAN AGRESSION UKRAINE
  • Location: KYIV, UKRAINE
  • City: KYIV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001200514112025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday (November 14), killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.
    President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces used 430 drones and 18 missiles and Kyiv was responding with long-range strikes. It was one of the biggest attacks on the capital so far.
    Ukrainian officials said most of the drones and missiles were shot down, but falling debris and fires damaged high-rise apartments, a school, a medical facility and administrative buildings across nine districts in the city of about 3 million.
    City officials said that six people were killed in Kyiv, which was the focus of the attacks. Russian drones also struck the Black Sea city of Chornomorsk, killing two people, the regional governor said.
    "Putin always says that they are only targeting military sites. It's a lie. It's a lie, because the Russian Federation is trying to destroy our energy infrastructure and leave the city without heating, water or electricity," Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said, while visiting one of the attack sites.
    Timur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, said that at least 34 people were injured across the city, including two children, and a pregnant woman was among nine people treated in hospital.
    Partial power cuts were announced in the central Kyiv region, in the southern Odesa region, and in the Donetsk region in the east, the energy ministry said.
    The governor of the Kyiv region outside the capital said drone and missile attacks injured six people, including a seven-year-old child, and triggered several fires. Ten people, including a child, were injured in Chornomorsk in the south when Russia hit the city's market, officials said.
    (Production: Sergiy Karazy)
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