12 deaths in Ukraine when Russia starts one of the largest air raids on Kyiv

Kyiv:

Russia has initiated one of the largest air strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv since the beginning of the war and hours after the exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war in a deal, which was considered the first step towards an armistice. Russian strikes killed at least twelve people in Ukraine overnight overnight overnight, with four deaths in the Kyiv region, the Ukrainian officials said.

Russian troops, which are slowly progressing on the Eastern Front in Ukraine, have conquered two settlements in the Donetsk region and in the northern region of Sumy in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday. Since their failed progress towards Kyiv in the first weeks of the war, the Russian armed forces have focused on catching the Donbas in the east, consisting of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The Ukrainian armed forces probably met the Russia's Migalovo Airbase with several explosions in the region tonight.

The base houses a number of Russian heavy transport aircraft. pic.twitter.com/70ne1a4m6o

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According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia launched 298 drones and 69 rockets in his overnight attack, although it said that it could reduce 266 drones and 45 rockets. The damage stretched to a number of regional centers, including the second largest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv, as well as mycolaiv in the south and Ternopil in the west.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Death from above: Russia again strikes Ukraine

In the second night in a row, the sky over Ukraine did not shine – not with fireworks, but with drones and rockets.

Kyiv woke up to flames and broken glass after a Russian drone had hit a five -story house that was injured … pic.twitter.com/vxtafqks8b

– Mario Nawfal (@Marionawfal) May 25, 2025

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that 12 people were killed and 60 wounded. Former number of fatalities that were run separately by the regional authorities and rescue workers had laid the number of dead at the age of 13.

Another night of Russian horror in Ukraine.

Rakets and drones met Kyiv, the Kyiv region, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv and more.
Civilians killed. Houses destroyed. Families who were pulled out of the rubble.

This is not a war. It is terrorism. And it has to end.

Russia… pic.twitter.com/fmd0pikmkn

– Anna K 🇺🇦 (@annakozyarska) May 25, 2025

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city's military administration, said that some of the drones about Kyiv and the surrounding area have already been treated. But the new ones still enter the capital, Kyiv. Overnight stays were also attacked in the Kherson region.

This was the second large air raid in two days. On Friday evening, Russia started dozens of drones and ballistic rockets in Kyiv in Wellen, which lasted over the night.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was a “difficult night for the entire Ukraine” and called for more sanctions against Moscow to achieve an armistice. But he also said that he expected officials to continue pressing with a prisoner exchange that was too agreed in Istanbul last week during the talks.

The most recent offensive comes when the two sides have followed their greatest prisoner exchange since Ukraine's full invasion of Moscow in February 2022.

On Saturday, according to the announcements in Kyiv and Moscow, 307 Russian prisoners of war were exchanged for the same number of Ukrainian soldiers.

Both sides received 390 people in the first stage on Friday and are expected to exchange a total of 1,000 in total.

Russia has signaled that after the exchange, Ukraine will send its conditions for peace regulation without saying what these conditions would be.

In the meantime, Russia has also accused Ukraine with 788 drones and rockets since Tuesday. In Moscow, at least four airports, including the main hub -Sheremetyevo, were restricted, said the Russian civil aviation authority. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 12 drones that fly to the Russian capital were intercepted.