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Ahead of Christmas, Massive Russian Overnight Strikes Leave Dead in Kyiv and Across Ukraine
Kyiv and several regions across Ukraine were hit overnight and into the morning of December 23 by a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack that struck residential areas, energy infrastructure, and civilian targets, leaving multiple people dead and wounded, including children.
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In Kyiv, falling debris from a Russian drone damaged a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district early in the morning. Five people were injured in the capital, among them a 16-year-old girl, according to the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, on December 23.
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A 48-year-old woman suffered shrapnel wounds and was hospitalized in serious condition.
Police confirmed that an enemy drone damaged a five-story apartment building in the district. Emergency services responded to the scene as residents were evacuated and damage assessments began.
In the surrounding Kyiv region, the attack proved fatal. In the Vyshhorod district, a woman born in 1949 was killed after a private two-story home caught fire following a strike. Three others were injured, including a 17-year-old girl. All sustained shrapnel wounds and received medical assistance at the scene.
Kyiv region.
— UAVoyager🇺🇦 (@NAFOvoyager) December 23, 2025
This was someone’s home.
russia killed a woman here.
Three more people were injured.
Not a “military target.”
Just terror. Just russia. pic.twitter.com/ERjWcghwkF
Kalashnyk described the overnight assault as a sustained attack using drones and missiles. “All night long, the terrorist state attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles. Peaceful settlements and ordinary homes were under fire,” he said.
Elsewhere, Russian strikes caused further casualties and infrastructure damage. In the Khmelnytskyi region, one person born in 1953 was killed, and local authorities reported disruptions to the electricity supply.
A Shahed drone crashed near a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district of #Kyiv. Several people are trapped inside their apartments 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 pic.twitter.com/ggqFuj9GgG
— Aurora Borealis 🤫 (@aborealis940) December 23, 2025
In the Zhytomyr region, a child born in 2021 was killed despite doctors’ efforts. One more child and an adult were hospitalized, with regional officials reporting a total of five injured.
Russian drones also struck critical energy infrastructure in the Lviv region, according to local authorities, underscoring a continued campaign against Ukraine’s power grid.
In the Odesa region, the overnight attack damaged energy, port, transport, and residential infrastructure, including a civilian vessel, a warehouse, and multiple homes.
Additional damage was reported in the Rivne region, where cars and a two-story apartment building were hit, and in the Chernihiv region, where drone strikes damaged civilian infrastructure in the town of Novhorod-Siverskyi.
Emergency services released images showing fires and structural damage in the Kyiv region, where rescue crews worked through the night. Authorities confirmed that fatalities from the December 23 attack were recorded in the Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr regions, including at least one child.
Earlier, a Russian missile strike on a port infrastructure facility in Odesa in southern Ukraine killed 8 people and injured 27 others.
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