STORY: Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday (November 14), killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces used 430 drones and 18 missiles and Kyiv was responding with long-range strikes. It was one of the biggest attacks on the capital so far.

Ukrainian officials said most of the drones and missiles were shot down, but falling debris and fires damaged high-rise apartments, a school, a medical facility and administrative buildings across nine districts in the city of about 3 million.

City officials said that six people were killed in Kyiv, which was the focus of the attacks. Russian drones also struck the Black Sea city of Chornomorsk, killing two people, the regional governor said.

"Putin always says that they are only targeting military sites. It's a lie. It's a lie, because the Russian Federation is trying to destroy our energy infrastructure and leave the city without heating, water or electricity," Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said, while visiting one of the attack sites.

Timur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, said that at least 34 people were injured across the city, including two children, and a pregnant woman was among nine people treated in hospital.

Partial power cuts were announced in the central Kyiv region, in the southern Odesa region, and in the Donetsk region in the east, the energy ministry said.

The governor of the Kyiv region outside the capital said drone and missile attacks injured six people, including a seven-year-old child, and triggered several fires. Ten people, including a child, were injured in Chornomorsk in the south when Russia hit the city's market, officials said.

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Russia pounds Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing eight and hitting energy sites

VIDEO SHOWS: DAMAGED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING / RESCUERS CARRYING DEAD BODIES IN BODY BAGS / RESCUE TEAM AT WORK / LOCAL RESIDENTS SPEAKING / KYIV MAYOR SPEAKING

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SHOWS: KYIV, UKRAINE (NOVEMBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING WITH SMOKE RISING FROM BURNT APARTMENTS

2. VARIOUS OF RESCUERS CARRYING DEAD BODY ON STRETCHER IN BLACK BODY BAG

3. RESCUE WORKERS CONSOLING WOMAN IN TEARS

4. STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE PSYCHOLOGIST STANDING NEXT TO WOMAN

5. PARAMEDICS AND RESCUE CONSOLING WOMAN

6. VARIOUS OF RESCUERS CARRYING DEAD BODY ON STRETCHER IN BLACK BODY BAG

7. VARIOUS OF BUILDING RESIDENT CRYING

8. TEARFUL RESIDENTS WAITING OUTSIDE

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) KSENIYA SYVACHEVA, 63, DAMAGED BUILDING RESIDENT, SAYING:

"The Shahed drone struck (the building). There was a bang. The fifth section of the building has collapsed. In our section, the windows and doors were also blown off. People have been killed on the seventh floor.”

10. POLICE AND RESCUERS

11. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) KSENIYA SYVACHEVA, 63, DAMAGED BUILDING RESIDENT, SAYING:

"There was a ten-year-old child there with a concussion who they carried on stretchers. There was somebody else too, but I couldn't see who. There was such a rush here. It was dark and there was a lot of smoke."

12. PEOPLE WITH CHILDREN WAITING OUTSIDE

13. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) ROMAN KOBERNYK, 54, DAMAGED BUILDING RESIDENT, POINTING TO HIS DAMAGED APARTMENT AND SAYING:

"My apartment is right there. Next to the one with a curtain hanging out, on the right."

14. WINDOWS OF DAMAGED APARTMENTS

15. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) ROMAN KOBERNYK, 54, DAMAGED BUILDING RESIDENT, SAYING:

"One room has completely gone. I visited it; it was flooded and charred. I'm no expert, but looking at my flat, I'd say the impact was higher up on the left. That's why I'm still alive and have half of my apartment left more or less intact."

16. VARIOUS OF BULLDOZER DRIVING BY

17. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) ROMAN KOBERNYK, 54, DAMAGED BUILDING RESIDENT, SAYING:

"We were hiding in the corridor when we heard the explosions. We monitored Telegram channels to see what was coming towards us. When we learned that there were no more Kindzhals or ballistic missiles our way and everything had calmed down, we thought about going back to our rooms. There were still some Shahed drones in the air, but that didn't worry me much. But just as I stepped into the room, I heard the sound of a diving Shahed, and it struck the building on the other side."

18. RESIDENTS WAITING OUTSIDE DAMAGED BUILDING

19. WOMAN IN TEARS WEARING BLANKET TALKING TO PSYCHOLOGIST

20. KYIV MAYOR VITALIY KLITSCHKO AT SITE

21. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) KYIV MAYOR VITALIY KLITSCHKO SAYING:

"Putin always says that they are only targeting military sites. It's a lie. It's a lie, because the Russian Federation is trying to destroy our energy infrastructure and leave the city without heating, water or electricity."

22. SMOKE RISING FROM BURNT APARTMENTS

23. (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) KYIV MAYOR VITALIY KLITSCHKO SAYING:

"That is why Kyiv was and remains the target of their attacks. They want to break people's will, spread depression and make people surrender. They want to break the resistance of Ukrainians. This is the only possible explanation for the attack on a peaceful city."

24. VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORKERS DISSEMBLING DESTROYED ELEMENTS OF BUILDING'S STRUCTURE

25. PEOPLE WATCHING