Russia launches biggest drone barrage of the Ukraine war, Kyiv says

Nearly 500 drones and 20 missiles of assorted types were launched by Russia astatine Ukraine overnight, marking the biggest barrage of the war, Kyiv said. 

On Monday, Ukraine's aerial unit said its aerial defenses were capable to destruct 277 of the 479 drones launched successful the acheronian and 19 missiles mid-flight. Kyiv claims lone 10 drones of missiles deed their people and conscionable 1 idiosyncratic was injured.

The bombardment targeted chiefly cardinal and occidental areas of Ukraine, they said.

Russia’s aerial attacks usually commencement precocious successful the evening and extremity successful the morning, arsenic drones are harder to spot successful the dark.

FOUR KILLED IN RUSSIAN ATTACKS ON UKRAINE AS MOSCOW CONTINUES TO RETALIATE FOR KYIV'S DRONE STRIKE

Explosion is seen aft Russian aerial onslaught connected Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Friday, June 6, 2025. (Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia has targeted civilian areas of Ukraine with Shahed drones during the war. The attacks person killed much than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations. Russia says it targets lone subject targets.

Despite the attack, the Kremlin said connected Monday that Russia was inactive acceptable to grant agreements with Ukraine connected a caller captive of warfare speech and connected the repatriation of dormant soldiers, contempt what it said was Kyiv's nonaccomplishment to truthful acold grant its broadside of the bargain.

RUSSIA LAUNCHES LARGEST AERIAL ATTACK OF UKRAINE WAR, KILLING AT LEAST 12

An flat artifact successful the Solomianskyi territory is damaged by an overnight Russian onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected June 6, 2025.

"We person seen and heard a 100 antithetic excuses, justifications and truthful on, but it is hard to presumption them arsenic credible," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters. "The Russian broadside remains acceptable to instrumentality the agreements reached successful Istanbul."

The exchanges were agreed to during a 2nd circular of nonstop bid talks successful Istanbul connected June 2 and are meant to spot a caller captive of warfare swap of astatine slightest 1,200 radical – focusing connected the youngest and astir severely wounded – arsenic good arsenic the repatriation of thousands of bodies of those killed successful the war.

A Ukrainian doc treats a worker injured by shrapnel from Russian explosive drones astatine a aesculapian stabilisation centre of the 3rd Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, successful an undisclosed determination adjacent Pokrovsk, eastbound Ukraine, connected June 7, 2025, amid the Russian penetration of Ukraine.  (FLORENT VERGNES/AFP)

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The instrumentality of prisoners of warfare and the instrumentality of the bodies of the dormant is 1 of the fewer things the 2 sides person been capable to hold on, adjacent arsenic their broader negotiations person failed to get adjacent to ending the war, present successful its 4th year.

Fox News Digital's Anders Hagstrom, the Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.