Kyiv continued an evening of hell as Vladimir Putin unleashed new terror at the Ukrainian capital.
Apocalyptic scenes opened up throughout greater than seven hours of bombardment which noticed missiles and drones hit till 5.10am these days.
Explosions and fires broke out around the capital town – as a senior Moscow army determine and hardline flesh presser insisted Putin’s intention is to unite Russia, Ukraine and Belarus right into a unmarried state.
Russia additionally attacked army amenities in Dnipro and Poltava areas amid claims the Kremlin deployed extra fatal £2million Iskander-M missiles – and their North Korean equivalents – than ever prior to.
Half of the drones had been intercepted, as had been six missiles, in step with Ukrainian militia.
In Kyiv and the encompassing area a minimum of ten other folks had been wounded within the intense Russian moves.
Reports from Moscow claimed Ukrainian drone-making amenities across the Antonov aircraft-making plant in Kyiv were hit.
Apocalyptic scenes opened up throughout greater than seven hours of bombardment which noticed missiles and drones hit till 5.10am these days

Explosions and fires broke out around the capital town – as a senior Moscow army determine and hardline flesh presser insisted Putin’s intention is to unite Russia , Ukraine and Belarus right into a unmarried state

In Kyiv and the encompassing area a minimum of ten other folks had been wounded within the intense Russian moves
The Kyiv Post reported ‘an enormous missile and drone assault on snoozing civilians in Kyiv in a single day’ which noticed ‘robust explosions’ each 5 to 10 mins.
In Kharkiv area the Putin slaughter – in spite of intended engagement with peace talks – endured with 4 Ukrainians killed, and 7 injured in Russian assaults.
The useless had been a lady, 78, two males, each 60, and any other girl, 33.
Kyiv Military Chief Timur Tkachenko labelled it a ‘tricky night time’ and added: ‘One of the biggest blended assaults at the capital. The enemy is bettering its ways of the use of drones, whilst concurrently putting with ballistics.’
Earlier port amenities had been destroyed in Odesa in a significant ballistic missile assault inflicting dying and accidents.
The onslaught used to be noticed as revenge for greater than 1,000 Ukrainian drones fired at Russia in contemporary days, which wrought havoc with airports in Moscow and different towns.

The Putin slaughter – in spite of intended engagement with peace talks – endured within the Kharkiv area with 4 Ukrainians killed and 7 injured in Russian assaults

Reports from Moscow claimed Ukrainian drone-making amenities across the Antonov aircraft-making plant (pictured) in Kyiv were hit

Pictured: Residents stroll on a boulevard with items of damaged glass on the web page of a residential development that used to be broken after a Russian assault in Kyiv on Saturday, May 24, 2025

There had been native reviews of ‘an enormous missile and drone assault on snoozing civilians in Kyiv in a single day’ which noticed ‘robust explosions’ each 5 to 10 mins
Russia reported a minimum of 94 Ukrainians shot down in a single day.
The plant makes ammonium nitrate and nitric acid, each an important to the manufacture of Russian explosives.
For the second one night time in a row, Ukraine additionally effectively attacked the Energia plant in Yelets, Lipeetsk area, which makes chemical energy resources for Russian drones, nuclear-capable Bulava missiles, in addition to Iskanders and hypersonic Kinzhals.
Russian MP and warfare hawk Lt-Gen Viktor Sobolev, 75, a member of the parliament’s defence committee, insisted Putin’s army intention is to unite Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in one state.
He stated: ‘The resolution, the entire option to those targets of the particular army operation, is indisputably the advent of a united union state of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.’

Pictured: Ukrainian solders fireplace a canon against Russian military positions close to Kharkiv

For the second one night time in a row, Ukraine additionally effectively attacked the Energia plant in Yelets, Lipeetsk area (Pictured: Soldiers from Ukraine’s 127th Separate Brigade)

Pictured: Soldiers from Ukraine’s 127th Separate Brigade firing at Russian drone assaults

Russia reported a minimum of 94 Ukrainians shot down in a single day
‘The recovery of the Russian global inside its herbal borders. We are all Russian.’
Lt-Gen Sobolev added historic connections which might be noticed as wrong-headed and offensive via Ukraine.
He stated: ‘Kyiv is the mummy of Russian towns. ‘Prince Vladimir is Russian, Yuri Dolgoruky is Russian. Yaroslav the Wise is Russian, and so forth….
‘So we will have to, in fact, offer protection to our Russian global.’
The in a single day assaults got here simply hours after US President Donald Trump hinted at ‘one thing giant’ within the area as Moscow and Kyiv agreed handy over 1,000 prisoners of warfare from all sides.
The American president stated on his social media platform, Truth Social: ‘A significant prisoners switch used to be simply in a while finished between Russia and Ukraine.

The in a single day assaults got here simply hours after US President Donald Trump hinted at ‘one thing giant’ within the area as Moscow and Kyiv agreed handy over 1,000 prisoners of warfare
‘Congratulations to all sides in this negotiation. This may just result in one thing giant???’
Ukrainian officers advised the Financial Times the switch used to be agreed throughout peace talks in Turkey that Vladimir Putin failed to wait.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated the ‘first level’ of the settlement used to be the day past performed with 390 other folks exchanged on all sides.
It is unclear if final night time’s assaults can have any concerning plans to proceed the swaps which might be scheduled to be finished via the top of the weekend.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated the ‘first level’ of the trade settlement used to be the day past performed with 390 prisoners of warfare exchanged on all sides
Russia’s defence ministry stated the day past: ‘270 Russian servicemen and 120 civilians together with non violent citizens of the Kursk area captured via the Ukrainian military had been returned.
‘In trade, 270 Ukrainian prisoners of warfare and 120 civilians had been passed over.’
The trade used to be agreed final week in what used to be the primary direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks for the reason that early weeks of Moscow’s 2022 invasion of its neighbour.
However, the assembly in Turkey lasted simply two hours and taken no step forward in world diplomatic efforts to forestall the combating.