{"id":253019,"date":"2025-07-10T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253019\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:40:18","slug":"russian-drones-swarm-kyiv-from-all-sides-in-apparent-shift-of-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253019\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian drones swarm Kyiv from all sides in apparent shift of tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyiv, Ukraine
\n CNN
\n \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Hundreds of Russian drones flying from all directions attacked Kyiv overnight into Thursday in an apparent new Russian tactic, marking a second consecutive night of ferocious attacks on Ukraine.\n <\/p>\n

\n At least two people were killed, including a 22-year-old female police officer, and more than a dozen were wounded in the attacks, according to authorities.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN staff on the ground in Kyiv witnessed massive, fiery explosions that illuminated the night sky. Smoke filled the air, creating a burning smell and obscuring the visibility in the city center.\n <\/p>\n

\n Russia has been intensifying its aerial attacks against Ukraine in recent weeks, but the assault on Thursday appeared to mark a change in approach from Moscow.\n <\/p>\n

\n Launching hundreds of drones and missiles, Russia attacked Kyiv from all directions \u2014 with some of the drones initially bypassing the capital before abruptly changing direction and speeding back towards the city. This made guarding the capital\u2019s skies even more challenging for the strained Ukrainian air defences.\n <\/p>\n

\n Many Kyiv residents spent another sleepless night in shelters, listening to the terrifying sounds of explosions and drones flying overhead.\n <\/p>\n

\n Nadiya Voitsehivkya, 63, told CNN her brother-in-law has been taken to hospital with injuries he sustained when his apartment was struck.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cEverything in it was completely destroyed, and (my sister) escaped in her underwear. She managed to escape, but her husband didn\u2019t make it; he was crushed by a slab. The ambulance took him away,\u201d she said, tears rolling down her cheeks.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know where to turn: I don\u2019t know who can help us. Everything there is burned down; there is nothing left of that apartment.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\"Nadiya<\/p>\n

\n The attack lasted more than 10 hours, with Russia launching 400 drones and 18 missiles, including eight ballistic missiles, at Ukraine according to a telegram post from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n <\/p>\n

\n As terrifying as the night was for Kyiv\u2019s residents, these massive aerial attacks have become the new normal for Ukrainian civilians.\n <\/p>\n

\n Just on Wednesday, Russia conducted its largest drone assault<\/a> since the start of its full-scale invasion, launching 728 drones and 13 missiles in strikes that killed at least one person, according to Ukrainian officials.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis is an obvious build-up of terror by Russia,\u201d Zelensky said on Thursday, adding that he would be talking to allies about more funding for interceptor drone and air defenses.\n <\/p>\n

\"Residents<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

\n The damage from the latest offensive attacks appeared to be substantial.\n <\/p>\n

\n Houses, residential buildings, cars, warehouse facilities, offices and other buildings across the city were damaged and caught fire, according to city authorities. A health care clinic was almost completely destroyed in the strikes, Kyiv\u2019s mayor Vitali Klitschko said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Russia has significantly scaled up its air attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks, launching near-nightly assaults involving hundreds of drones and missiles.\n <\/p>\n

\n Work towards a peace deal has simultaneously slowed down, triggering frustration in the White House, where US President Trump on Tuesday took aim at Russia\u2019s leader Vladimir Putin.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe get a lot of bullsh*t thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,\u201d Trump said in a Cabinet meeting. \u201cHe\u2019s very nice all of the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Russia\u2019s sustained assault in recent days has injected new urgency into questions surrounding Washington\u2019s commitment <\/a>to defending Ukraine, as the Trump administration pledged to send additional defensive weaponry to Kyiv in an apparent policy reversion.\n <\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

\n Moscow downplayed Trump\u2019s harsh words in a press briefing Wednesday. A Kremlin spokesperson said it is reacting \u201ccalmly\u201d to Trump\u2019s criticism of Putin. \u201cTrump in general tends to use a fairly tough style and expressions,\u201d Dmitry Peskov said, adding Moscow hopes to continue dialogue with Washington.\n <\/p>\n

\n US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to meet his Russian counterpart<\/a> Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Malaysia on Thursday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Following Wednesday\u2019s record drone attack, Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky said there had been \u201cso many attempts to achieve peace and cease fire, but Russia rejects everything.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Thursday\u2019s attack on Kyiv follows a landmark ruling by Europe\u2019s top human rights court Wednesday, which found that Russia committed major international law violations in Ukraine.\n <\/p>\n

\n The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on four cases concerning Russian military operations in Ukraine since 2022, as well as the conflict in eastern Ukraine which began in 2014 and includes the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.\n <\/p>\n

\n It found that Russia had committed a pattern of human rights violations in Ukraine since the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n <\/p>\n

\n The ECHR also ruled Russia was responsible for the downing of flight MH17 in 2014. Moscow has repeatedly denied responsibility for MH17\u2019s destruction, which killed 298 people.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyiv, Ukraine CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Hundreds of Russian drones flying from all directions attacked Kyiv overnight into Thursday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-253019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114828045704236064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}