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STORY: Russia launched another prolonged drone attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday (June 10), killing one person and damaging swathes of Kyiv as well as striking a maternity ward in the southern port of Odesa, regional officials said.
The overnight strikes followed Russia's biggest drone assault on Ukraine on Monday (June 9)—part of stepped-up operations that Moscow said were retaliatory measures for Kyiv's recent brazen attacks in Russia.
At least four people were hospitalised in Kyiv as a result of the hours-long attacks that hit seven of the city's 10 districts, city officials said.
Air raid alerts in Kyiv and most Ukrainian regions lasted five hours until around 5 a.m. (0200 GMT), according to military data. The attack sparked fires in residential and non-residential neighbourhoods and open space areas, city officials said. Reuters' witnesses heard and saw countless loud explosions shaking the city and lighting the night sky.
The attacks come despite pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump on both sides to move towards a resolution on the war. Moscow and Kyiv returned to negotiations for the first time in more than three years, but outside an agreement on the exchange of war prisoners, there has been no tangible progress.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war. But thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
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VIDEO SHOWS: KYIV SKYLINE WITH SOUND OF AIR DEFENCE GUNS / EXPLOSIONS IN THE AIR / ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS TRACER BULLETS IN THE AIR / EXPLOSIONS ON THE GROUND
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SHOWS: KIYV, UKRAINE (JUNE 10, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)
1. (NIGHT SHOT) BURNING OBJECT FALLING DOWN IN NIGHT SKY
2. (NIGHT SHOT) SKYLINE WITH BURNING OBJECT FALLING DOWN
3. (NIGHT SHOT) EXPLOSION IN SKY
4. (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF BURNING DRONE FALLING DOWN
5. (NIGHT SHOT) SKYLINE WITH EXPLOSION ON GROUND
6. (NIGHT SHOT) ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN TRACER ROUNDS IN SKY
7. (NIGHT SHOT) EXPLOSION ON GROUND
8. (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF SKYLINE WITH RISING SMOKE AND EXPLOSIONS
9. (NIGHT SHOT) SKYLINE WITH GLOW OF FIRE
10. (NIGHT SHOT) ANTI-AIRCRAFT SEARCHLIGHT IN SKY
11. (NIGHT SHOT) ANTI-ACRAFT GUN TRACER ROUNDS AND FULL MOON IN SKY
12. (NIGHT SHOT) BURNING OBJECT FALLING DOWN IN NIGHT SKY
13. (NIGHT SHOT) EXPLOSION FROM FALLING DRONE ON GROUND
14. (NIGHT SHOT) BURNING AND FALLING OBJECT
15. (NIGHT SHOT) EXPLOSION IN SKY
16. (NIGHT SHOT) BURNING AND FALLING OBJECT
17. (NIGHT SHOT) EXPLOSION IN SKY
18. (NIGHT SHOT) FIRE BETWEEN BUILDINGS
19. EXPLOSION ON GROUND
20. (NIGHT SHOT) ANTI-ACRAFT GUN TRACER ROUNDS IN SKY
21. VARIOUS OF SKYLINE WITH SAINT ANDREWS CHURCH AND SOUND OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS
22. EXPLOSION AND SMOKE IN SKY
23. SAINT ANDREWS CHURCH WITH SUN RISING IN BACKGROUND