Russia has launched one of its largest airstrikes on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, targeting the capital Kyiv as well as Odesa, the Dnipro, and Chernihiv regions.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russia launched 322 aerial weapons overnight: 315 Iranian-made Shahed drones and seven missiles, including North Korean-made KN-23 ballistic missiles and Iskander-K cruise missiles. Ukrainian defenses successfully intercepted 277 of the drones and all seven missiles.
On the night of June 10, in the Odesa region, warriors of mobile fire groups of the Odesa anti-aircraft missile brigade destroyed 7 enemy strike drones.
📹: South Air Command pic.twitter.com/V2J3Mmez9y
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) June 10, 2025
Ukrainian officials reported that at least eight people were killed during the attack.
In Kyiv, officials said one person was killed and four others injured. Saint Sophia Cathedral, an 11th-century church and UNESCO World Heritage site in Kyiv, was damaged by the strike. Andrii Sybih, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, described the building as Ukraine’s “most precious heritage of global cultural significance.”
The blast wave from today’s massive Russian attack on Kyiv damaged the facade of the unique 11th century St. Sophia Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Russia’s brutal terror threatens not only our people, but also our most precious heritage of global cultural… pic.twitter.com/WerRIPZlYp
— Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 (@andrii_sybiha) June 10, 2025
Local authorities reported that two people were killed and nine were injured in Odesa, where several infrastructures, including a maternity hospital and an emergency medical center, were struck.
Russia targeted a maternity hospital in Odesa. The strike landed just meters away. No one was hurt — this time.
When a country chooses to bomb pregnant women and unborn children, it’s not just war. It’s moral bankruptcy — the total collapse of even the most basic human values. pic.twitter.com/YbuCEsUSn2
— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) June 10, 2025
In other targeted regions, airbombs, artillery, and smaller drone strikes resulted in five deaths and 19 injuries, according to local authorities.
Ukraine reportedly deployed several Ka-32A11BC firefighting helicopters, donated by Portugal last year, to help extinguish fires caused by Russia’s extensive overnight air raid.
Last year, Portugal donated a number of out-of-service Ka-32A11BC firefighting helicopters to Ukraine.
Ukraine refurbished and returned them to flying status, and today, those Ka-32s worked to put out fires from Russia’s massive overnight air raid on civilian targets in Kyiv. pic.twitter.com/NVTACmDI3v
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 10, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Russia’s attack, calling it “one of the largest” on Kyiv, and once again urged Western nations to take action. “It is vital that the response is not silence, but concrete action,” he said.
Russian missile and Shahed strikes drown out the efforts of the United States and others around the world to force Russia into peace. For yet another night, instead of a ceasefire, there were massive strikes with Shahed drones, cruise and ballistic missiles. Today was one of the… pic.twitter.com/t3uEzzoCsL
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 10, 2025
The attack comes after Russia’s largest drone strike on Monday, during which it deployed 499 aerial weapons in just one day.
