Russia launched 948 drones at Ukraine in a 24-hour period, marking the largest aerial assault since the war began.
Ukraine’s Air Force said 556 drones were fired on Tuesday in an unusual daytime wave of attacks that hit multiple regions. Officials said another 392 drones and 34 missiles were launched in overnight strikes that preceded the daytime barrage.
Recovery efforts are underway in our regions following last night’s massive Russian attack. In Zaporizhzhia and Poltava, ordinary apartment buildings were damaged, and fires broke out. Nearly 40 drones were launched against Shostka in the Sumy region. In Slatyne, in the Kharkiv… pic.twitter.com/BMMZshMS67
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 24, 2026
Ukraine’s Air Force said at least three people were killed in the daytime strikes, while earlier overnight attacks killed five more across multiple regions. Dozens of others were injured.
The attacks damaged civilian infrastructure across Ukraine. In the western city of Lviv, a drone strike damaged parts of the 16th-century Bernardine monastery in the city center, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, local officials said.
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🇺🇦 The ancient Bernardine Monastery in Lviv, which, along with other buildings in the city, was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is on fire.Amazon ref link: https://t.co/1RAvSsENaO pic.twitter.com/HTcDhCKgKL
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In the neighboring Ivano-Frankivsk region, a maternity hospital was hit, according to regional authorities.
In his evening address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the scale of the attacks “clearly shows that Russia has no intention of really ending this war.”
Iranian “shaheds” enhanced by Russia hit a church in Lviv – this is utterly perverse, and only the likes of Putin could take pleasure in it. In Ivano-Frankivsk, a maternity hospital was damaged. The scale of today’s attack strongly indicates that Russia has no intention of really… pic.twitter.com/f7uD0zEIPz
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 24, 2026
He also noted that Russian forces used Iranian-designed drones in the attack.
“Iranian ‘shaheds’ enhanced by Russia hit a church in Lviv – this is utterly perverse, and only the likes of Putin could take pleasure in it,” Zelenskyy said.
“If we take into account that Russia is also helping the Iranian regime to carry out strikes across the region, the conclusion becomes self-evident: without additional and strong pressure on Russia, without significant Russian losses, those in Moscow will not develop any desire to back down from the war and somehow come to terms with peace again,” Zelenskyy added.
Also on Tuesday, the governor of Russia’s western Kursk region said one man was killed and 13 people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on an agricultural enterprise.
