Day of Mourning in Kyiv: final toll from Russian missile strike reaches 24 dead, including three girls aged 12, 15, and 17
The 28-hour search-and-rescue operation ended at the destroyed apartment block in Darnytskyi district.
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Russia destroyed a section of a 9-story Kyiv apartment block overnight, killing 8 civilians in one of the war’s largest combined attacks (updated)
Across Ukraine, the same assault wounded seven more civilians near Kyiv, knocked out power for 31,000 near Chernihiv, hit Odesa's port, and struck Kharkiv.
A Kyiv Oblast kindergarten was hit hours after Russia’s “ceasefire” ended
Russia also targeted Dnipro locomotives, Mykolaiv power facilities, bombed Zaporizhzhia, and shelled more regions.
Russia is using Belarus as a launch pad for signal-relay balloons that help its drones reach Ukrainian cities
A Ukrainian border service spokesperson confirmed on 3 May that one such balloon crossed the Ukrainian border from Belarus on the previous day.
40 children narrowly escape Russian drone strike on bus near Dnipro: six wounded include a child and a pregnant woman
Russia's attacks across Ukraine killed at least eight civilians and injured 90 people. 26 were injured over the past day in Kherson Oblast alone.
Ukraine doubled all of 2025’s interceptor drones in just four months, minister says
Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said the Defense Procurement Agency scaled deliveries through three parallel channels, including a weapons marketplace.
Russia’s overnight target list in Odesa: a hotel, the funicular, the port, three districts, 14 civilians
Air defense downed 74 of 94 drones, but 20 hit 15 locations across the country, the Air Force says.
ISW: Russia likely plans to exploit European telecom loopholes for Shahed guidance — as it already does near Poland, Romania, Belarus
Ukraine's MoD adviser said Russia orders SIM cards from T2, a Rostelecom subsidiary, for Shahed drones, which then switch to neighboring countries’ networks when Ukraine blocks them.
Ukraine’s private-sector air defense groups downed their first jet Shahed — Russia’s drone that flies at 300+ km/h
A private group in Kharkiv Oblast made the interception, a minister reported. The network has grown from 13 to 19 enterprises it operates at since March, integrated into Air Force command.
Ukraine’s Patriot crews are rationing missiles mid-attack — Ukraine’s Air Force confirms interceptor missile shortage
An AF spokesman confirmed that the stocks of Patriot interceptors — the only solution against Russian ballistic missiles — are critically depleted.
How Russia killed 16 Ukrainian civilians overnight — even as Ukraine intercepted 95% of its missiles and drones (updated)
Two waves of missiles and Shahed-type drones — 703 aerial weapons in total — hit Kyiv and other cities, killing a child and three adults in the capital, eight people in one Odesa building, and three more across central Ukraine.
Ukraine’s greatest philosopher visited this estate. Russia burned it down 242 years later
The Donets-Zakharzhevskyi estate in Velykyi Burluk — a locally protected architectural monument where Hryhorii Skovoroda once stayed — was completely consumed by fire on 7 April after two direct drone strikes; no casualties were reported.
Fewer Russian drones last night. That’s when Ukraine starts watching the skies more carefully
After a string of massive attacks topping 286 and 542 drones, Russia launched 93 overnight on 4-5 April — a dip that has preceded surge attacks before, or may signal an emergency diversion of drone supplies to Iran.
Fishing nets used in the Mediterranean for millennia — now Italy wants to turn them into drone shields over Ukrainian cities
Senator Scalfarotto introduced the bill after Ukraine demonstrated that mesh strong enough to haul fish can also stop a Shahed from reaching a hospital or a convoy.
Russia struck Nova Poshta’s postal terminal in Zaporizhzhia — prosecutors opened a war crimes case
Nova Poshta said all employees had sheltered before impact, that four received concussions and two are in moderate condition.
Russia hit Ukraine’s hydropower plant eight days ago — and poisoned a river that flows into Moldova
Moldova's Environment Minister said the oil volume in the Dniester already "significantly exceeds" the initially reported 1.5 tonnes.
Russian drones hit Kyiv during the morning — something it normally doesn’t do
Ukraine's Air Force explicitly labeled the morning drone push toward Kyiv on 16 March as "atypical," as Russia combined a standard overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv with an unusual morning wave of over 20 Shaheds targeting Kyiv's energy infrastructure.
Russia is flying Shaheds into Ukraine’s FPV kill zone to crack bunkers smaller drones can’t destroy, ISW says
ISW's 4 March assessment identified Russian forces pushing Shahed drones into the 0–20 km frontline strip normally dominated by tactical FPVs, citing their heavier payloads as the reason.
Russia’s winter campaign was supposed to freeze Ukraine, split its grid, and stop its factories. None of it worked, ISW says
With the campaign now over, Russia is preparing strikes on Ukraine's water supply — a shift ISW calls an implicit acknowledgement of failure, while warning that lessons from the energy campaign could be applied to water infrastructure, which shares similar Soviet-era vulnerabilities.
Russia struck two trains within 24 hours — and Ukrzaliznytsia says rolling stock is now a primary target
A Russian drone hit a train in Mykolaiv, while a second drone narrowly missed a passenger locomotive on the Dnipro–Kovel route — part of a campaign averaging six railway strikes per day since the start of March.