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Macron wants Washington to tell Ukraine “we are with you” as the G7 summit in Évian

15 June 2026 at 15:54

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Europeans now shoulder nearly the entire burden of Kyiv's war effort, while America still provides weapons and intelligence, France's president said on 15 June.

Emmanuel Macron made the case in a TF1 interview ahead of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains. France hosts the three-day gathering through 17 June. Asked whether the United States remains a reliable ally, Macron answered that it does. Washington stays by Ukraine's side, he said, even as its role has shifted.

An ally whose role has shifted

A year and a half ago, the United States believed it could end the war quickly, Macron argued. It then grasped the full complexity, as Europe had. Today Washington no longer funds the bulk of the military effort. Europeans carry that weight instead. Even so, the country still supplies arms, shares intelligence, and exchanges information. Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea have also joined the financing, he added.

What Macron wants Washington to say

The French leader framed a clear ask for the G7 summit. The United States should declare, in his words: "We are with you, we will continue to support Ukraine, and we will increase the pressure on Russia to achieve a meaningful negotiation." He wants the bloc, meeting first with Trump on Monday evening and then with Zelenskyy, to rally around that message.

A peace format taking shape

Macron also set out his preferred negotiating structure. "The right negotiation is one in which Ukraine and Russia are at the table, but with Europeans and Americans present as well," he said. German government sources told Suspilne that the most realistic format would pair Ukraine and Russia with the United States and Europe. The hardest question, those sources said, is who speaks for Europe. They argued Kyiv now negotiates from a position of strength, because Russia cannot win on the battlefield and its economy is straining.

More pressure on Russia and the shadow fleet

Europe must keep raising the cost for Moscow, Macron said. He pointed to the Kremlin's shadow fleet, which moves oil to fund the war. Britain and France have run operations against that fleet over the past two weeks, he noted. Moreover, the remark lands the same day the EU adopted fresh sanctions on shadow-fleet vessels and operators.

Trump and Zelenskyy at Évian

Trump arrives in France on Monday and meets Macron that evening, US officials said. On 16 June, he joins a G7 summit working session that Zelenskyy will also attend. However, no one-on-one Trump–Zelenskyy meeting is currently scheduled. The two leaders might meet on the sidelines, an administration official said. At last year's G7 summit in Canada, Trump left early, and the gathering produced no joint statement on Ukraine.

Kallas calls the Lavra attack a war crime and announces new EU sanctions

15 June 2026 at 15:26

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The bloc's foreign ministers blacklisted shipping firms, drone makers, propagandists, and judges tied to Alexei Navalny's death, the Council confirmed on 15 June.

The package landed hours after a Russian missile and drone barrage damaged the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. High Representative Kaja Kallas tied the two together, unveiling the measures ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council, which she chairs.

A response framed around war crimes

Russia escalated its attacks on civilians overnight and struck a UNESCO-protected landmark in Kyiv, Kallas said.

"These are war crimes, and Russia will have to answer for them," she wrote.

The bloc answered the same day with asset freezes and travel bans.

Drone makers and Chinese suppliers in the crosshairs

The new measures name seven individuals and 21 entities that prop up Russia's military-industrial complex and its middlemen abroad. The list targets producers and suppliers of drones and other military gear. Among them is NPO Lavochkin, a firm founded by the Russian space corporation Roscosmos. Rustakt, ASFPV, and IONOS also appear on the roster. Two Chinese companies, Shenzhen Minghuaxin and Xinxiang Richful Lubricant Additive Company, round out the named suppliers. The bloc also listed ERA Military Innovation Technopolis and the Advanced Research Foundation, both set up by the Russian state to build military drone systems.

Shadow fleet and a Lukoil unit

A second tranche hits two individuals, Tahir Garayev and Konstantin Rogach, alongside 24 entities linked to Russia's shadow fleet. The designations cover Lukoil-Western Siberia and companies registered in Russia, Liberia, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, and Hong Kong. The fleet helps Moscow ship crude oil around Western price caps.

Propagandists and a Kremlin culture fund

The Council also blacklisted 10 prominent Russian propagandists and one entity for information manipulation. The listed entity is the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, created by a decree from Vladimir Putin. Named individuals include Anatoly Kuzichev, Kirill Fedorov, Roman Antonovskii, and Maria Volkonskaya.

Listings over Navalny's death

A further 15 people and one entity face penalties over the persecution and death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. They include Russian judges, prosecutors, FSB officers, and medical staff. The bloc acted on a joint statement issued in February 2026 by the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. That statement said Navalny was poisoned in February 2024 with the toxin epibatidine. The listed entity, IPJSC NTK, helped build a facial-recognition system used to track Navalny's supporters, the Council said.

These designations run alongside a broader 21st package the Commission proposed on 9 June. That wider effort targets banks, oil traders, refineries, and crypto platforms. The EU aims to adopt it by 15 July, before a review of the Russian oil price cap. Separately, the Council renewed its Crimea-occupation sanctions through 2027 after an annual review.

Russia has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites since 2022 — prosecutor general calls Lavra strike deliberate erasure

15 June 2026 at 14:16

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Moscow's forces have looted over 7.8 million artifacts from museums in occupied territory since 2014, Ukraine's chief legal authority reported on 15 June.

The figure surfaced as Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko condemned an overnight missile strike on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. He placed the attack within what he called a deliberate state campaign to erase the country's identity. Kravchenko spoke hours after a combined Russian barrage set fire to the monastery's Dormition Cathedral. The cathedral is one of the most revered sites in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Founded in 1051, the complex sits under UNESCO World Heritage protection. Moreover, it falls under the enhanced-safeguard mechanism of the 1954 Hague Convention.

A strike the prosecutor frames as cultural warfare

The Lavra hit belongs in the same category as earlier attacks on national symbols, Kravchenko argued. He grouped it with strikes on the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa and the Hryhorii Skovoroda museum in Kharkiv Oblast. The list also named the Ivankiv museum holding works by folk artist Maria Prymachenko. It extended to the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio in Kyiv and the Organ and Chamber Music House in Dnipro.

"This is the deliberate policy of an aggressor state — to destroy what shapes Ukrainian identity," his office said.

Almost 2,000 sites damaged, more than 100 under UNESCO's umbrella

Russian forces have damaged or destroyed close to 2,000 elements of Ukrainian cultural heritage, Kravchenko stated. The count runs from the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. More than 100 of them carry UNESCO designation, he added.

That national tally runs well above the figure the UN body verifies on its own. UNESCO confirmed damage to 536 cultural sites as of 10 June 2026. That narrower count reflects stricter cross-checking against satellite imagery and on-site inspection. The gap reflects method, not contradiction. Ukrainian authorities log every culture-related facility affected in any way, while UNESCO applies a tighter definition of cultural property.

Dovzhenko studio loses Ukraine's largest costume archive

Investigators recovered missile fragments at the Dovzhenko film studio after the overnight assault, the prosecutor general reported. The strike leveled a two-story costume storehouse. It also damaged an annex to the sound stages, plus administrative and production buildings. No deaths or injuries occurred at the site.

Studio chief Andrii Donchyk told the "Snidanok z 1+1" program that the archive was the country's oldest. Roughly 100,000 costumes and about three million items of clothing had been stored there. How many survived the fire remained unclear.

Looting across occupied territory

Beyond physical damage, Kravchenko detailed a vast removal of movable Ukrainian cultural heritage. Russian forces seized or appropriated more than 7.8 million heritage objects from occupied-area museums between 2014 and 2026, he said. Furthermore, the true scale could be higher, because access to many collections remains blocked.

Prosecutors have opened more than 240 criminal cases and named 15 suspects so far.

"Crimes against cultural heritage are also war crimes. They carry no statute of limitations," Kravchenko said.

A countrywide barrage centered on Kyiv

The air force reported that Russia launched 70 missiles and 611 drones overnight on 15 June. Kyiv was the main axis of attack. Missiles also struck Dnipro and Kharkiv. Air defenses neutralized 632 incoming threats — 50 missiles and 582 drones. Nevertheless, 20 ballistic missiles and 27 attack drones hit 42 locations, while debris fell at 12 more.

In Kyiv, the strike killed five people and wounded 35, including two children, city authorities said. Fires broke out across nearly every district. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later put the nationwide toll at 11 killed and 53 injured.

Moscow's denial and a pledge to escalate

Russia's defense ministry claimed the barrage targeted "defense-industrial complex" facilities in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv. In addition, it repeated Moscow's standard line that its military avoids deliberate strikes on civilian infrastructure. The latest assault on Ukrainian cultural heritage and residential districts followed a 12 June statement by Vladimir Putin. He had said Russia would intensify its strikes on Ukraine.

Netherlands transfers sixth mine countermeasures vessel to Ukraine—named Henichesk after ship sunk in 2022

15 June 2026 at 13:40

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Ukraine's Naval Forces received a sixth mine countermeasures vessel from the Netherlands on 15 June, the Alkmaar-class minehunter formerly known as Zr.Ms. Makkum, renamed Henichesk and transferred under the Maritime Capabilities Coalition, Navy commander Vice Admiral Oleksii Neizhpapa announced on Facebook.

All five mine countermeasures vessels now in Ukrainian service were transferred under the Maritime Capabilities Coalition, an international grouping of more than 20 states established in December 2023 at the initiative of the United Kingdom and Norway to rebuild and modernize Ukraine's naval forces for Black Sea security.

A fleet rebuilt from allied transfers

The vessel is named after the raid minesweeper of the same name that was lost while performing a combat mission in 2022, Neizhpapa stated. At the official handover ceremony, Neizhpapa raised the Ukrainian Navy flag on the new ship in the presence of the commanders of the Royal Netherlands Navy, the Royal Belgian Navy, and the navies of Romania, Lithuania, and Latvia.

Henichesk joins four previously transferred vessels: Cherkasy and Chernihiv, both Sandown-class ships from the United Kingdom, and Melitopol and Mariupol, both Alkmaar-class ships from Belgium and the Netherlands. All five vessels will be temporarily based in the United Kingdom until the end of the war.

Vessel design and mine-clearance systems

The primary mission of Alkmaar-class minesweepers is to detect and neutralize naval mines, as well as to protect naval formations in mine-threatened areas. The hulls are built from non-magnetic materials, including polyester-based fiberglass, reducing vulnerability to magnetic mines. The superstructures are made of lightweight alloys. The ships are equipped with a hull-mounted sonar system for detecting underwater objects, as well as remotely operated underwater vehicles for identifying and neutralizing threats.

The primary mine-disposal tool is the SeaFox underwater drone, which identifies and destroys mines using a controlled explosive charge. In complex cases, divers can be deployed for specialized operations.

Black Sea demining and future exercises

Neizhpapa stated that Henichesk will strengthen Ukraine's capabilities in mine countermeasures—searching for, detecting, and neutralizing naval mines. The new ship is expected to participate in the Sea Breeze exercises in 2027. After the war ends, the vessels are planned for large-scale demining operations and for restoring safe navigation in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

France compares Lavra strike to bombing Notre-Dame, calls for tougher sanctions

15 June 2026 at 12:28

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Russia's overnight strike on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on 15 June prompted condemnation from European foreign ministers and calls for an expanded EU sanctions package.

The strike on one of Christianity's most significant sites—a UNESCO World Heritage complex in use for nearly a millennium—has given fresh momentum to EU member states pressing for broader economic restrictions against Russia ahead of the vote on a 21st sanctions package.

EU ministers react ahead of Luxembourg council meeting

Speaking before the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said, according to Radio Liberty, Russia had "once again demonstrated the full brutality of its actions," comparing the attack to striking the most sacred religious sites in France.

"For us French, this would be equivalent to bombing Notre-Dame or the Basilica of Saint-Denis," Barrot said. He added that France supports continued pressure on Russia, including sanctions targeting entities that support the Russian shadow fleet and those responsible for spreading Kremlin propaganda.

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhna said Russia had "once again demonstrated its barbarity and contempt for humanity's shared heritage," describing the Lavra as a UNESCO World Heritage site and "one of Christianity's holiest monasteries" that had "been a place of worship for nearly a thousand years."

"Today, it burns because of Russia," Tsakhna said.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas also condemned the attack, describing it as part of a broader pattern. "Last night we again witnessed intensified attacks on civilians, as well as on UNESCO cultural heritage sites. All of this constitutes war crimes committed by Russia," Kallas said.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called the strike "evidence of Russia's unwillingness to engage in peace negotiations," and said Germany would continue its policy of full support for Ukraine and further strengthening of sanctions against Russia. "We again saw vile attacks from the Russian side—in particular, last night against European cultural values of incalculable significance," Wadephul said.

Lithuania and Ukraine call for stronger measures

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys said the attack was a further argument for adopting the 21st EU sanctions package, but added that the current proposal was not sufficiently stringent. He noted that Russian energy companies Rosatom, Rosneft, and Lukoil remain off the sanctions list, and that no full ban on maritime services for the Russian shadow fleet is included in the current draft.

"This is one of the holiest places for the Christian world. For Russia, no red lines exist anymore," Budrys said.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda wrote that for Russia "nothing is sacred" and called for increased pressure to end the war. "In Russia's attacks on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest Orthodox shrines, we see a deranged contempt for human lives, cultural heritage, and the very spiritual tradition that Russia calls its own," he wrote.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said he was urgently initiating all relevant procedures within UNESCO, "demanding an immediate and adequate response to this state barbarism." Sybiha said Ukraine expects "no vague words, no silence, no weak steps"—only "the necessary actions to stop Russian barbarism."

Strike on the Lavra

Russia launched a wave of missile and drone strikes on Kyiv overnight on 15 June, striking the Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. According to the Hromadske source, Ukrainian forces recorded 681 aerial attack means in total—70 missiles and 611 drones of various types. Kyiv was the primary target; Dnipro and Kharkiv were also struck with missiles.

Around 1 am, a Russian Shahed drone hit the altar section of the Dormition Cathedral—specifically the Stefanivskyi chapel. The strike ignited a fire covering approximately 800 square meters on the Lavra grounds.

Maksym Ostapenko, director-general of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra National Reserve, told Hromadske that swift action by firefighters and staff prevented a far greater loss. "Only the timely actions of the firefighters do we owe the fact that we see the Dormition Cathedral as it is now, because everything could have been much, much worse. The target was absolutely deliberate—to destroy the cathedral," Ostapenko said. He added that artifacts and relics inside were evacuated in time, including the Reliquary of Saint Stephen, an 18th-century artifact he described as one of the sacred objects of Orthodoxy.

Nearly 42,000 Kyiv residents sheltered in metro during overnight Russian attack, including 3,400 children

15 June 2026 at 11:00

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Almost 42,000 people—including 3,400 children—took shelter in Kyiv's metro stations during Russia's mass aerial attack on the Ukrainian capital overnight on 15 June, municipal operator KP Kyivskyi Metropoliten reported.

The figures underscore the scale of civilian displacement during major strikes: Russia launched 681 aerial weapons that night—70 rockets and 611 drones of various types—the largest single recorded salvo against Ukraine. Air defenses intercepted 632 by 08:00, but 20 ballistic missiles and 27 strike drones reached their targets across 42 locations.

Metro system operates as city-wide shelter network

All 46 underground stations function as shelters around the clock during air alerts, with all vestibules open for entry, the operator said. During the overnight attack, crowding at some stations prompted an advisory: commuters were directed toward central stations—Zoloti Vorota, Teatralna, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Khreshchatyk, Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv, and Palats Sportu—as less congested alternatives.

The operator noted average temperatures inside shelters run at 17–18°C and recommended residents bring warm clothing, blankets, or sleeping mats. Shelter-seekers were also advised to carry water or hot drinks, necessary medications, and hygiene supplies including wet and dry wipes. Those traveling with pets were advised to bring pads and bags. Bulky items—tents and inflatable mattresses in particular—were discouraged to preserve floor space for other sheltering residents, and the operator asked people to keep access paths to service rooms, restrooms, and trains clear at all times.

Five killed in Kyiv as strikes hit cultural landmarks

Five people were killed in Kyiv in the attack and 35 were injured, including two children, with rescue operations still ongoing at the time of reporting. Among the sites struck were the Assumption Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the Mystetskyi Arsenal arts complex adjacent to it, and the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio, where the attack destroyed Ukraine's largest and oldest stage costume collection. Ballistic missiles also reached Dnipro and Kharkiv.

Russian drone strike on Dnipro damages organ music house, college, and injures one

15 June 2026 at 09:45

The House of Organ and Chamber Music,

Russian forces struck Dnipro with drones in the early hours of 15 June, damaging a cultural landmark, a college, a school, an enterprise, and infrastructure objects, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration head Oleksandr Hanzha reported via Telegram.

The attack damaged the House of Organ and Chamber Music, which is one of Dnipro's foremost cultural institutions, housed in the former St. Nicholas Cathedral — a neoclassical building with Baroque elements constructed in the early 20th century. It holds one of Ukraine's finest organs: a 30-register W. Sauer instrument built in Germany, with 2,074 pipes and a total weight of 12 tonnes. The venue hosts more than 300 concerts annually, including international festivals, and is a listed national architectural and historical landmark.

Sequence of strikes and damage

Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warned at 01:25 of a missile approaching the city. Explosions were heard after midnight. At 02:10, Hanzha reported that one person had been injured; he later specified the victim was a 64-year-old man hospitalized in moderate condition.

An enterprise was damaged and a fire broke out at the site, Hanzha said. At 03:22, the official reported that one section of a college building had been destroyed, and that blast waves had shattered windows at a school and a cultural facility.

By 06:40, it became known that the House of Organ and Chamber Music had also sustained damage.

Air defense forces destroyed 24 Russian drones over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast during the attack, Hanzha said. Authorities called on residents not to ignore air raid alerts.

The strike on Dnipro was part of a large-scale Russian aerial attack across Ukraine overnight on 15 June. Russia launched 611 attack drones along with six Zirkon anti-ship missiles, 34 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles, and 30 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles against Ukraine overnight.

In Kyiv, at least five people were killed and 35 injured, and around 140,000 households were left without electricity after strikes hit residential areas and power infrastructure. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was set on fire — its Dormition Cathedral sustaining direct hits. In Kharkiv, five rescue workers were killed by a second Russian strike while fighting a blaze caused by an earlier attack, with at least five others wounded, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

Russia kills 5 in Kyiv, injuries 35 in overnight strike with 681 weapons—including six Zircons

15 June 2026 at 08:10

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Russia launched its largest combined strike in recent weeks against Ukraine overnight on 15 June, targeting Kyiv with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and attack drones that sparked fires across nearly all of the capital's districts, killing five people and injuring 35, including two children, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko and the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration (KCMA), Tymur Tkachenko, reported.

Ukraine's Air Force said air defense intercepted 632 of the 681 weapons launched—50 missiles and 582 drones—leaving 20 ballistic missiles and 27 attack drones to strike 42 locations, with debris from downed drones falling on a further 12 sites.

Scale and composition of the attack

Ukraine's Air Force recorded 681 aerial attack systems in total: 70 missiles and 611 drones and loitering munitions of various types. The missile component comprised six Zircon anti-ship missiles launched from Russian-occupied Crimea; 34 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles from Bryansk and Kursk oblasts; and 30 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles from Vologda and Kursk oblasts, according to the Air Force. The drone component—611 systems—included Shahed-type attack drones, Herber, Italmas, Banderol loitering munitions, and Parodiya decoy drones, launched from Bryansk, Kursk, Oryol, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and occupied Crimea.

Aviation, surface-to-air missile units, electronic warfare units, drone units, and mobile fire groups of Ukraine's Defense Forces all took part in repelling the attack, the Air Force said.

How the strike differed from recent ones

This was the third-largest Russian mass attack on Ukraine in the more than three years since the full-scale invasion began. The attack closely resembled Russia's strike of 2 June but with one key substitution: Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles were replaced by Iskander-K cruise missiles, Yurii Ihnat, head of communications for the Air Force, said on the national telethon on 15 June.

"Probably it differs in that there were no Kalibr cruise missiles, but instead there were Iskander-K cruise missiles… In total—70 missiles and 611 UAVs of various types. Among them, the already well-known anti-ship Zircon missiles, which attacked from Crimea, 34 ballistic Iskander-M missiles," Ihnat said.

Ballistic missiles remain the most difficult threat to intercept, Ihnat noted. Of the 34 Iskander-M/S-400 missiles flying ballistic trajectories, air defense downed 15—a result he described as relatively high for an attack of this character. Five of the six Zircon missiles, which also follow a ballistic profile, were intercepted, which Ihnat called one of the best results recorded against that weapon type. All 30 cruise missiles launched were destroyed, he said: "As of the morning, it is known that the Defense Forces managed to shoot down 100% of the cruise missiles the enemy launched at Ukraine."

Ballistic missiles struck Kharkiv and Dnipro in addition to Kyiv, Ihnat confirmed. Aviation, surface-to-air missile units, electronic warfare units, drone units, and mobile fire groups of Ukraine's Defense Forces all took part in repelling the attack.

Kyiv: fires across all districts

The attack struck residential buildings, cultural institutions, and infrastructure across Kyiv. In Obolonskyi district, a nine-story apartment building was hit, and around 30 cars burned. In Solomianskyi district, a nine-story residential building was struck; firefighters evacuated 15 people, including two children, and a school building was also reported damaged. In Desnianskyi district, a nine-story building caught fire, three private homes were destroyed by debris, and a kindergarten grounds were set alight.

In Pecherskyi district, a 17-story apartment building was struck. A fire then broke out on the roof of the Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra—one of Ukraine's most significant Orthodox Christian sites—and was extinguished by 08:35, the State Emergency Service (DSNS) reported. While firefighters were working at the cathedral, a second strike hit nearby, targeting the National Cultural, Arts, and Museum Complex Mystetskyi Arsenal, according to DSNS.

Also struck were a vegetable market and an eight-story residential building in Shevchenkivskyi district; a high-rise residential building and warehouse facilities in Holosiivskyi district; residential development in Sviatoshynskyi district; and private homes in Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts.

The four fatalities were recorded in Obolonskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Solomianskyi districts, DSNS said earlier.

DSNS said more than 1,200 rescue workers and police were deployed in Kyiv, with reinforcement rapid-response units called in and DSNS aviation used to fight large-scale fires. Twenty-six residential buildings were damaged in the capital, the service said.

"Damages and fires have been recorded in almost all districts of the city," Klitschko wrote.

Infrastructure and cultural damage

DSNS and Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture Tetiana Berezhna reported that the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio had one of its production facilities destroyed.

The Dovzhenko National Film Studio costume collection was destroyed, according to Berezhna.

A large explosion was reported at the site around 2:00 am, followed by a massive fire that emergency services and explosives technicians worked through the night to extinguish, with staff only able to enter the premises around 5:00 am. The studio director told Kyiv24 the strike was likely caused by a missile impact. The fire gutted the costume workshop — a two-story building of more than 2,500 square meters packed floor to ceiling with garments stored millimeters apart, according to the channel.

An academy and a kindergarten were also damaged in Kyiv. Emergency services said 26 fires covering nearly 6,000 square meters were recorded in the capital, with work continuing at six locations as of the morning update

The strike also destroyed the largest and most technologically advanced parcel sorting terminal operated by Nova Poshta, Ukraine's leading delivery company. The facility was the first in Ukraine to be equipped with automated parcel-sorting equipment from Dutch company Vanderlande, a global leader in logistics automation, according to Nova Poshta's chief operating officer Yevhen Tafiichuk. Tafiichuk said all staff were safe and that backup delivery routes had already been activated.

The building of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) on Beresteiskyi Avenue also sustained damage in the attack. Windows were blown out, and court staff were assessing the full extent of the damage as cleanup and recovery work continued on site, the court said in a statement. The court said all scheduled hearings would proceed as planned.

Road police blocked sections of roads in Solomianskyi, Obolonskyi, Pecherskyi, and Desnianskyi districts following the attack, and public transport rerouted in affected areas, deputy head of the Patrol Police Department Oleksii Biloshytskyi and the municipal transport operator Kyivpasstrans reported.

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