Death toll from Russian strike in Kyiv rises to 14, over 100 injured
The number of people killed in the Russian missile strike on Kyiv in the early hours of June 17 has risen to 14, with 117 injured.
17 June 2025
The number of people killed in the Russian missile strike on Kyiv in the early hours of June 17 has risen to 14, with 117 injured.
Two people were killed and 27 others were injured on June 17 due to Russian shelling in the Kherson region.
Thirteen people have been confirmed dead in Kyiv following a Russian missile attack.
As of 17:30 on Tuesday, June 17, 12 people were confirmed dead following overnight Russian strikes in Kyiv and Odesa.
On the southern front, Russian invading forces are using munitions with chemical agents just as they do in the northern sectors of the front.
Russian forces continue attempts to break through to the administrative border of Dnipropetrovsk region. Currently, the most intense fighting is occurring in the Novopavlivka sector.
According to preliminary data, it was the cruise missile, which struck a multi-storey residential building in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district on Tuesday.
The situation on Ukraine’s southern front is deteriorating, with a sharp rise in the number of Russian assault groups, combat engagements, and artillery attacks.
Rescuers have recovered the body of a deceased person from the rubble of a collapsed section of a nine-story residential building in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district. Authorities report that between four and fourteen people may still be trapped under the debris.
In the capital, efforts continue to deal with the aftermath of Tuesday’s massive Russian attack, with 296 rescuers and 75 units of equipment from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) involved in the operation.
The Russians have changed their tactics in using UAVs: they have been launching massive attacks on Kherson’s Dniprovskyi district since early morning, with the number of injured civilians increasing.
British Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Harris, commenting on another large-scale Russian attack on Ukrainian cities, called on Russia to immediately agree to a ceasefire.
In the Kyiv region, damage from Russian UAVs and missile attacks has been recorded in four districts, with one woman injured.
On the night of June 16 to 17, Russian occupation forces launched 472 drones and missiles against Ukraine. The primary target was Kyiv. As many as 428 drones and missiles were neutralized.
Fourteen people were killed and 99 others were injured in Kyiv during Russia's massive overnight attack, with 59 of them hospitalized, according to the Ukrainian Health Ministry.
Following Russia's morning attack on Odesa, rescuers have found the body of a woman under the rubble, and the number of those injured has increased to 17, including a pregnant woman and a 17-year-old girl.
During an overnight attack on June 17, Russia launched more than 440 drones and 32 missiles against Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
At least five residents of a high-rise apartment building in Kyiv, destroyed by a Russian missile, are currently considered missing.
On June 16, Ukrainian forces engaged in 186 combat clashes with Russian invaders, according to a Facebook update from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russia’s invasion forces have suffered an estimated 1,006,120 casualties since the large-scale invasion, including 1,060 killed or wounded in action over the past 24 hours.
Fourteen people died in Kyiv as a result of a Russian combined missile and drone attack, while 40 were injured.
Kyiv region was subjected to a Russian missile attack overnight Tuesday, which caused casualties, left homes damaged, and resulted in several fires.
At dawn, the Russians massively attacked Odesa with drones, leaving infrastructure facilities damaged and causing casualties.
Russia pummeled Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with attack drones and missiles overnight Tuesday, June 17, leaving at least 18 civilians injured.
In Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukrainian partisans have scouted the system of boom barriers installed in Sevastopol Bay.
Europe is currently compensating to a significant extent for the reduction in aid to Ukraine from the United States, with Scandinavian countries and the United Kingdom emerging as leading contributors.
As part of the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine), 30,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel have completed training in Poland.
16 June 2025
Fighters from the Hart brigade of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service have destroyed two Russian long-range visual surveillance systems Murom-M, two vehicles, and a communications antenna in the Vovchansk sector.
Russian troops are attempting to break through toward Kostiantynivka from the Pokrovsk direction, specifically along the Pokrovsk-Kostyantynivka highway, aiming to advance further. Intense fighting is currently ongoing in the area.
Russian forces launched an airstrike on a residential neighborhood in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, injuring two people.