Russia is trying 'to inflict as much damage as possible on ordinary life,' said Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
At least three people were killed in Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight into Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after the U.S. ramped up the pressure on Moscow to negotiate on a peace deal for Ukraine.
The Context Russia has hammered Ukraine, including the country’s capital city, with often large-scale aerial attacks throughout the more than three and a half years of full-scale war. The combination of drone and missile strikes has repeatedly drawn sharp criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, who shelved plans for an in-person summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin this month after Moscow said its negotiating position is unchanged and hit Russia with sanctions. What To Know Ukraine’s state emergency services also said three people had been killed in overnight strikes and another 30 people injured. Seven of the people wounded were children, including a 4-year-old, emergency officials said. Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said seven people had been hospitalized, two of whom were children. “My deepest condolences to their families,” Zelensky said. The Ukrainian leader said Russia had launched more than 100 drones overnight. Firefighters work at a destroyed apartment building after a Russian drone attack in Kyiv on October 26, 2025. Ukraine’s air force said Russia had used 101 drones of various types in the strikes into Sunday morning, roughly 60 of which were Iranian-designed Shaheds. Air defenses had intercepted or knocked off course 90 of the drones as of 9 a.m. local time, the air force said. Five strike drones hit four locations and fragments of intercepted unmanned aerial vehicles landed on five sites, according to the military. Russia launched close to 1,200 attack drones, more than 1,360 guided aerial bombs and over 50 missiles in just one week, Zelensky said. Emergency services said rescuers were on site at two high-rise buildings in the northeastern Desnianskyi district of Kyiv as of 11:15 a.m. local time. “Ordinary apartment buildings in several districts of the city have been damaged,” Zelensky said. The outside and ceiling of part of an apartment building in the Desnianskyi area was damaged, Klitschko said. “Several apartments” in a residential building in the same area caught fire, and a drone hit a building in a separate district in northern Kyiv, the mayor said. Timur Tkachenko, the head of the capital’s military administration, said at least one car was damaged in a residential area of the Darnytskyi district, south of Desnianskyi. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email. Zelensky said early on Saturday Russia had launched “dozens of attack drones” and nine ballistic missiles at Ukraine. Two people were killed and thirteen injured in Kyiv overnight from Friday into Saturday, authorities said. The Trump administration on Wednesday announced the U.S. would level sanctions against Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, in an attempt to pressure Russia into negotiating a peace deal. The European Union on Thursday adopted its 19th sanctions package against Moscow, targeting its energy profits and financial institutions. The White House has prepared additional sanctions against Russia, to be used if the war in Eastern Europe continues to drag on, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter. U.S. sanctions are an “unfriendly step,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday, but said Moscow wished to build “good relations with all countries, including the United States.” “Additional tariff and sanctions restrictions are needed against Russia and all those helping it stay afloat,” Zelensky said. Putin separately on Sunday described the country’s Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile as a “unique” weapon after Russia’s most senior general, Valery Gerasimov, said the missile had covered roughly 14,000 kilometers, or 8,700 miles, in a 15-hour test flight on October 21. What People Are Saying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday: “Every Russian strike is an attempt to inflict as much damage as possible on ordinary life.” “Russia is hitting residential areas so that as many civilians as possible are affected,” Ukrainian Interior Ministry Ihor Klymenko, said on Sunday. “Killed, injured children, destroyed hospitals, apartments,” said Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže. “It’s targeted and intentional.”
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