Russia Launches Three Waves of Ballistic Missiles at Kyiv Ahead of Trilateral Peace Talks

The attacks occurred in three separate waves, beginning at approximately 11:00 p.m. on November 6, followed by additional strikes around 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. on November 7. Explosions were reported across Kyiv and its surrounding areas.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that the strikes damaged the Northern Bridge, one of the capital’s key crossings over the Dnipro River. Traffic was suspended in both directions while specialists assessed the structural damage.

The attack damaged the bridge’s road surface, trolleybus overhead power lines, and electrical infrastructure. The blast wave also damaged five trucks parked near the crossing, according to Klitschko.

Municipal crews and road maintenance teams began working at the site, although authorities have not announced when traffic could resume.

In Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, the strikes damaged several residential buildings. Part of the ground-floor facade of a five-story apartment building was destroyed, while three other five-story buildings sustained broken windows.

A two-story structure on the grounds of a kindergarten was also destroyed. Elsewhere in the district, a truck and a nonresidential building caught fire, with emergency crews subsequently extinguishing the flames.

Five people were injured across the capital, including a 14-year-old child. Two of the injured were hospitalized, according to local authorities. The strikes also damaged energy facilities in the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions, disrupting electricity supplies and affecting heating and water services in the capital.

Klitschko described the city’s electricity supply situation as extremely difficult. Emergency power cuts were introduced in Kyiv at 7:05 a.m., replacing previously scheduled outage timetables.

According to Ukraine’s Air Force on November 7, Russia launched 172 attack drones, including 137 jet-powered drones, alongside ballistic and other missiles during the overnight assault.

The drones included Shahed-type systems, Gerbera drones, and Parodiya decoys. The Air Force also reported the use of missiles identified as Iskander-M, Zircon, KN-23, and S-400 types, launched from Russia’s Bryansk and Voronezh regions.

Kyiv region was the primary target of the attack, according to the Air Force.

As of 9:00 a.m., Ukrainian air defenses had intercepted or suppressed 149 drones and four missiles. The Air Force recorded strikes at 24 locations and falling debris from intercepted weapons at another 10 locations.

Outside the capital, emergency responders rescued a man trapped beneath the rubble of a residential building in Bohdanivka, a village in the Brovary district of Kyiv region, after a Russian drone strike.

Earlier, on October 27, Russian ballistic missiles damaged Kyiv’s South Bridge during a large-scale attack involving 280 drones, forcing authorities to close the crossing and temporarily suspend metro service. Kyiv was the primary target of the assault, with Ukrainian air defenses intercepting or suppressing 257 aerial targets.

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