Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least 14 and traps others in damaged buildings

At least 14 people have been killed in the extensive Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight.

Authorities said that more than 100 people were injured in missile and drone attacks across the country, and some people remain trapped under the rubble of apartment buildings.

Officials said the body of a three-year-old child was pulled from debris by emergency crews in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Kyiv residents had been on edge for days after Russia warned that a massive aerial attack was coming and warned foreign diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital. None appeared to heed the call.

“A large-scale attack and an explicit statement by Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic missiles and other missile strikes, those strikes will continue,” Zelensky said in response to the attack, urging more support from the US and European countries.

James Reynolds2 June 2026 09:40

Recap: Fears Russia could threaten Arctic and put London within range of hypersonic missiles

Russia is threatening a strategic chokepoint in the Arctic, control of which would place it within missile range of London, Norway’s defence minister has warned.

Tore Sandvik told The Times that he was concerned Moscow could try to exert itself in the Bear Gap, a roughly 400-mile-wide stretch of water between mainland Norway and the archipelago of Svalbard, in order to gain access to the Atlantic.

Russia’s powerful Northern Fleet accounts for around two-thirds of their navy’s nuclear strike capabilities and has benefitted from large investment as it expands operations around Nato waters in the north.

Fears Russia could threaten Arctic and put London within range of hypersonic missiles

UK’s defence secretary warns Russia poses ‘greatest threat to Arctic and High North security since the Cold War’

James Reynolds2 June 2026 10:10

Russian strike on Ukraine's Dnipro kills 11, governor says

The death toll from a Russian strike on Ukraine's southeastern city of Dnipro overnight has risen to 11, including two children, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Tuesday.

Hanzha said the bodies of an eight-year-old boy and a woman had been pulled from the rubble of a destroyed four-storey building.

Hanzha earlier said a boy aged three was among those killed in the attack, which also wounded 37 people.

James Reynolds2 June 2026 10:05

Four killed and 54 injured in Russia's latest attack on Kyiv

James Reynolds2 June 2026 09:40

Russian officials tell Putin war in Ukraine is unaffordable

Senior Russian officials have warned Vladimir Putin that spending on the war in Ukraine is currently unaffordable, according to a report.

People familiar with the matter and documents seen by Bloomberg News suggest officials in Russia’s finance ministry and central bank have advised the Kremlin that the current level of projected defence spending risks the budget deficit spiralling.

A letter to Putin from his finance minister earlier this year, seen by the FT last month, reportedly urged the cebinet to freeze around $40bn in planned non-war-related spending this year as the cost of the conflict bites.

Russia expects to run at least $28bn over budget on its war spending this year, the letter was reported to have warned.

Russia’s ballooning $28bn Ukraine war bill forces Putin to make spending cuts

Russia continues to spend big on the war as its gains in Ukraine shrink to a fraction of what it took last year

James Reynolds2 June 2026 09:17

Ukraine claims strike on Russia's Ilsky oil refinery

In its latest assault on Russian energy infrastructure, Ukraine claims the attack earlier reported on Ilsky oil refinery.

Earlier today, local authorities said the refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region caught fire following a drone attack.

They said there were no casualties according to preliminary information.

The Ilsky refinery, with an annual processing capacity of 6.6 million metric tons of oil, or 133,000 barrels per day, is export-oriented.

James Reynolds2 June 2026 09:10

US help on ballistic missile interceptors 'definitely' needed, urges Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky says there are 500 emergency services personnel responding to the aftermath of Russian attacks across the country overnight.

In Kyiv, dozens of residential homes were damaged and four people were reportedly killed, while 38 remain in hospitals, he says.

The Ukrainian president says that Russia launched 656 attack drones and 73 missiles in its blistering attack. He says it delivers a clear statement from Russia: “If Ukraine is not protected from ballistic and other missile strikes, these attacks will continue.”

Zelensky concludes that Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defence, and assistance from the US in supplying Patriot systems is “absolutely necessary”.

Arpan Rai2 June 2026 08:49

Russia claims overnight strikes are response to Kyiv's 'terrorist acts'

Russia has claimed its massive overnight strike on Ukraine was a response to what it called "terrorist acts" against ⁠targets inside Russia and said it had struck a range of Ukrainian military targets.

Ukraine says the strikes have killed 11 people and injured more than 100 and that residential buildings and infrastructure bore the brunt of the damage.

The Russian defence ministry statement read: "Overnight, in ⁠response to terrorist acts of the Kyiv regime, the armed ​forces ⁠of the Russian Federation ‌carried out a massive strike using high-precision long-range air-, land-, and sea-based weapons.”

It said Russia had used hypersonic missiles and drones to attack seven Ukrainian regions including Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv, successfully targeting sites useful to the Ukrainian armed forces such as fuel and transport facilities and military airfields.

The Kremlin warned last week that Russia would start to carry out "systematic strikes" on targets in Kyiv in retaliation for what it said was a devastating Ukrainian drone attack on a student dormitory in Russian-held Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, which killed 21 ‌people.

Ukraine said it had targeted a drone ​command centre in the area, not students.

Arpan Rai2 June 2026 08:10

In photos: Russia's brutal attack on Ukraine as Putin 'avenges' dormitory strike

Arpan Rai2 June 2026 07:43

140,000 in Kyiv without power after major Russian attack

An overnight Russian attack cut electricity to 140,000 residents of Ukraine's capital Kyiv, power company DTEK said this morning.

Utility workers had ‌since restored ‌electricity to ⁠110,000 residents, DTEK said, adding that two of its engineers ‌had ​been injured.

Arpan Rai2 June 2026 07:32