Russia turned the skies over Kyiv into a killing field overnight on May 7, 2025, launching a wave of missiles and suicide drones that killed at least two people—a mother and her son—and injured eight others, including four children, reducing civilian homes to smoking wreckage.
In the early hours of May 7, Kyiv was jolted awake by explosions as Russian forces unleashed a wave of ballistic and drone attacks on the capital yet again. The assault, which included a ballistic missile and 28 drones, tore into residential neighborhoods, ignited fires across multiple districts, and left behind scenes of grief and chaos.
Residents assess damage from their balconies after a Russian strike ignited a fire in this apartment building in Kyiv on May 7, 2025.
The aftermath of Russia’s ballistic and drone attacks on Kyiv on May 7, 2025.
A drone struck a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi District, sparking a deadly fire and killing a volunteer family, a mother, her son, and five cats in their apartment. In Sviatoshynskyi District, firefighters rescued siblings—children—suffering from burns in a smoke-choked building. Across the capital, families now pick through the wreckage of what used to be home.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko assesses the damage after Russia’s attack on the capital. “Eleven enemy drones were shot down over Kyiv and its suburbs,” said Klitschko. Ten more drones left the city’s airspace, while three lost contact with radar.
Charred children’s books and belongings lie in the ashes of a Kyiv apartment after a Russian ballistic and drone attack on May 7, 2025, killed a mother and her son.
Kyiv residents and municipal workers gather outside in the aftermath of Russia’s missile and drone attack on the capital in the early hours of May 7, 2025.
Kyiv residents peer through broken windows and scorched balconies after a Russian ballistic and drone attack on the capital on May 7, 2025.
Municipal workers clear debris outside a damaged pharmacy in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi District following Russia’s overnight drone and missile attack on May 7, 2025.
A municipal worker clears mud and debris from the entrance of a residential building in Kyiv following Russia’s overnight drone and missile attack on May 7, 2025.
A man with his dog and a woman stand behind police tape outside a damaged pharmacy in Kyiv on May 7, 2025, hours after a Russian drone and missile strike rocked the city.
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