World·UpdatedRussia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 100 others, authorities said Tuesday. It follows days of warnings about Moscow's plans for a major assault.Russia launched 656 drones and 73 missiles overnight, Ukraine air force saysThe Associated Press · Posted: Jun 01, 2026 9:10 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes agoListen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.A woman prays while sheltering in a metro station during a Russian air attack on Kyiv early Tuesday. (Alina Smutko/Reuters)Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 100 others, authorities said Tuesday.Some people were trapped under the rubble of apartment buildings, including a three-year-old child whose body was pulled out by emergency crews in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, officials said, as the attack stretched from night into day and the boom of explosions reverberated across cities.Kyiv residents had been on edge for days after Russia warned that a massive aerial attack was coming and warned foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital. None appeared to heed the call."A large-scale attack and an explicit statement by Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic missiles and other missile strikes, those strikes will continue," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in response to the attack, urging more support from the U.S. and European countries.Zelenskyy asks U.S. for urgent air defence help amid Russian threat of new strikesUkraine's cultural, historical institutions heavily damaged in mass-scale Russian attackRussian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up Moscow's aerial campaign against Ukraine, with Russian forces recently launching a powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile for only the third time in the four-year war.Kyiv resident Olha Mudra and her daughter Natalia, 6, look at their damaged apartment after a nearby building was struck during the overnight Russian missile and drone attacks. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)The Russian strategy seeks to take advantage of Ukraine's shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defence missiles, with international stocks depleted by the Iran war. That has left civilians especially vulnerable to the Russian ballistic missile barrages, even as air defences stop most of the attack drones.At least 64 people were wounded in the capital, emergency services said. Kyiv resident Iryna Salikova, 37, said she spent the night lying in a bathtub for protection with her three-year-old daughter, as blasts reverberated across the city."Our window was broken, a cobblestone flew into the children's room," Salikova said, though they weren't hurt. "Thank God we're alive. Today we're alive, today we're lucky." Putin seeks to change the narrative of the warRussia unleashed 73 missiles and 656 drones across Ukraine, according to the country's air force, with the main targets including Kyiv, the central city of Dnipro, and the eastern cities of Poltava, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian air defence forces destroyed and suppressed 40 missiles and 602 drones.Putin is keen to generate some positive news from the conflict that began with Russia's invasion of its neighbour and hasn't gone according to plan. People take shelter inside a metro station in Kyiv amid an attack by Russia. (Alina Smutko/Reuters)Western officials and analysts say Ukrainian drones are pinning down Russian troops on the front line, choking Russian supply lines in occupied regions of Ukraine, and disrupting oil facilities deep inside Russia that provide vital revenue for Moscow. That has made the war, which Moscow refers to as a "special military operation," more visible to Russians and increased pressure on Putin.Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement that the military issued a "massive" strike with long-range precision weapons on military industrial facilities in the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Khmelnytsk and Sumy regions.Putin vows revenge after Ukraine attack kills at least 6, wounds dozens at student dormIn the central Dnipropetrovsk region, at least eight people were killed and 35 others injured.Hits of 30 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and 33 drones were recorded at at least 38 locations across Ukraine, according to regional authorities. Debris from destroyed drones fell on 15 locations, the air force said. Firefighters work on a car dealership damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv on Tuesday. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)Man thrown out of Kyiv apartment by blastAt least four people were killed in Kyiv and 63 people were injured, including three children, Ukraine's state emergency service said in a statement on Telegram. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged in eight Kyiv districts.In the Podilskyi district, there was partial damage to the upper floors of a nine-storey building, trapping people under the rubble. Rescue operations were still underway in the early hours of the morning, even as an air raid alert remained in effect.In the Solomianskyi district, a 20-storey building and a 24-storey building were damaged. Firefighters in Dnipro work at the site of an apartment building destroyed in the overnight attack. (Reuters)Olena Dniprovska, 65, and her husband Yevhen, 64, were injured in their apartment in Kyiv's Podilskyi district during the attack."I went out into the corridor with the phone, and before I understood what happened, everything fell on my head, the glass, and the door blew off," said Dniprovska, dried blood streaked across her face and a bandage wrapped around her chin. "I ran out into the front door and started calling my husband from the room, but he was also blown out by the blast wave.Russia uses hypersonic Oreshnik missile in mass attack on KyivUkraine makes some battlefield gains, but 'grey zone' along front is getting bigger"Now I have nowhere to live, the apartment is completely destroyed — no doors, no windows, no balcony. You can step straight from the room out onto the street," she said.In Kharkiv, at least 14 people were injured and residential homes, garages and cars were damaged. A two-storey residential building and part of a four-storey apartment block were also damaged, with people trapped beneath the rubble of the larger building.