Overnight strike the latest in a series of heavy assaultspublished at 06:11 British Summer Time

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Firefighters extinguish a fire on pipe at residential district after a Russian night drone attack on 5 June 2025 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.Image source, Getty Images

Russia has launched multiple aerial assaults on Ukraine in the past few months, including more than 300 drones and missiles in a single night last week.

In that strike, Russia launched 367 drones and missiles against Ukraine – the largest number in a single night since Putin’s full-scale invasion began in 2022.

At least 12 people, including three children were killed and dozens more were injured.

At the time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the US’s silence on the attack: “This cannot be ignored. America’s silence, and the silence of others in the world, only encourages Putin.”

And for three consecutive nights in the last week of May, Russia targeted Ukraine with some of the heaviest aerial attacks across multiple regions, according to the Kyiv Independent paper.