Russian drone slams into block of flats in deadly wave of strikes across Kyiv

BBC ^ | 11/14/2025 | Toby Luckhurst, ttilie Mitchell

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'Astonishingly lethal': James Landale reports from site of deadly Russian strike

A Russian drone has slammed into a block of flats in eastern Kyiv, killing six people and wounding dozens of others, during a wave of strikes throughout the Ukrainian capital.

As emergency workers sifted through the wreckage in the Lisovyi area, one Kyiv resident called Vita described how the drone had pierced the building, exploding on the other side.

Meanwhile, Ukraine stepped up its attacks on Russia's oil infrastructure, with drone strikes on one of its biggest export terminals in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea coast.

Fire broke out at the Sheskharis oil refinery, and a ship and a block of flats were hit, officials said.

Krasnodar governor Veniamin Kondratyev said three crew members and another man were hurt in the attack which damaged the main oil depot and a container terminal.

Mayor Andrei Kravchenko declared a state of emergency and Reuters reported that oil exports were suspended.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had fired long-range "Long Neptune" cruise missiles during its attacks on Russia overnight, without specifying what they targeted.

Kyiv fire service said the drone destroyed several floors of the entire block of flats

Condemning Russia's overnight attacks as vile and calculated, Zelensky said about 430 drones and 18 missiles had been launched and dozens of high-rise buildings damaged.

A drone attack on a market at Chornomorsk in the south of the country killed two people.

In Kyiv, residential buildings came under attack "in practically every district", the head of the city's military administration Tymur Tkachenko said on Telegram.

He issued a warning to take shelter a minute after midnight local time on Thursday night, writing "it's loud in Kyiv

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[SaxxonWoods]

“officials said falling debris and fires
damaged high-rise apartments, a school,
a medical facility, and administrative
buildings across nine districts in the
city of about 3 million.”

“Falling debris” tells you the apartments weren’t targeted, drones damaged by defense and knocked off target fell on the buildings.

[BobL]

If Zelensky CARED about his civilians he wouldn’t be targeting incoming drones over his cities. He’d hit them well before they got there.

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He’d hit them well before they got there.

With what?

Weapons supplied by proxy war participants?

[Steely Tom]

I read the head line as “... a flock of bats.” Had to re-read it. I guess that Spanish F-18 pilot who maneuvered to avoid the birds had a subconscious effect on me.