{"id":1269,"date":"2025-12-07T03:52:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:52:04","slug":"russia-launches-record-drone-missile-attack-on-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches record drone, missile attack on Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\">\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong class=\"published\"><span id=\"publishDate\" class=\"value-title\" title=\"2025-07-09\"\/>Wednesday, July 9, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" style=\"display:none\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rfr_id=rfr_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:User%3ADendodge&amp;rft_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:Russia_launches_record_drone,_missile_attack_on_Kyiv&amp;rft.atitle=Russia+launches+record+drone%2C+missile+attack+on+Kyiv&amp;rft.jtitle=Wikinews&amp;rft.date=2025-07-09&amp;rft.aucorp=Wikinews+contributors&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.rights=CC-BY+2.5&amp;rft.identifier=%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FRussia_launches_record_drone%2C_missile_attack_on_Kyiv&amp;rft.artnum=-\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox noprint desktop-only\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right; width: 200px; background: #edf7ff; border: solid #666666 1px; padding: 0px; font-size: x-small; clear:right;\">\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<p>Map of Russian incursions into Ukraine<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 2px;\">\n<figure class=\"mw-halign-center\" typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4f\/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg\/250px-2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg.png\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"118\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4f\/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg\/330px-2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4f\/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg\/500px-2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x\" data-file-width=\"2199\" data-file-height=\"1478\"\/><\/a><figcaption\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Collaborate!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mw-halign-center mw-image-border\" typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Category:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine\" title=\"2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/50\/Russo-Ukrainian_War_Flag.svg\/60px-Russo-Ukrainian_War_Flag.svg.png\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"60\" height=\"40\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/50\/Russo-Ukrainian_War_Flag.svg\/120px-Russo-Ukrainian_War_Flag.svg.png 1.5x\" data-file-width=\"600\" data-file-height=\"400\"\/><\/a><figcaption>2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:BBC\">BBC<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deutsche_Welle\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Deutsche Welle\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/i>, one person was killed and 26 others injured after a night of intensive Russian strikes on nearly every district of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Kyiv\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Kyiv\">Kyiv<\/a>, officials said. The reports said the attacks continued until around 4:30 a.m. local time (0130 UTC) on Friday. Ukraine&#8217;s air force said <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Russia\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Russia\">Russia<\/a> launched 539 drones and missiles during the assault, the highest number launched in a single attack since the start of the invasion.\n<\/p>\n<p>Air raid sirens sounded for more than eight consecutive hours as multiple strikes hit Kyiv, which the air force described as the &#8220;main target of the strikes&#8221; on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telegram_(software)\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Telegram (software)\">Telegram mobile app<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The strikes came hours after a call between US President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Putin\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Vladimir Putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>, after which Trump said he was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; that Putin was not ready to end the war against Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the <i>BBC<\/i>, the Kremlin said it would continue the war in Ukraine until it had addressed what it called &#8220;the root causes of the war in Ukraine.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 id=\"Sources\">Sources<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"sourceTemplate\">Paul Adams, Jessica Rawnsley. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2g3qvz0pvo\">Kyiv hit by barrage of drone strikes as Putin rejects Trump&#8217;s truce bid<\/a> \u2014\u00a0<i><span class=\"interwiki-link-local\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/BBC_News\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"BBC News\">BBC News<\/a><\/span><\/i>, July 4, 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sourceTemplate\">Matt Ford, Amy Stockdale, Farah Bahgat, Louis Oelofse with AFP, AP, dpa, and Reuters. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ukraine-hit-by-major-attack-as-trump-says-putin-wont-stop\/live-73150663\">Ukraine hit by major attack as Trump says Putin won&#8217;t &#8216;stop&#8217;<\/a> \u2014\u00a0<i><span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deutsche_Welle\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Deutsche Welle\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/span><\/i>, July 3, 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nParsed by mw&#8208;web.codfw.main&#8208;c6c4f4c4&#8208;vrqd7\nCached time: 20251207035203\nCache expiry: 604800\nReduced expiry: true\nComplications: [vary&#8208;revision&#8208;sha1]\nCPU time usage: 0.149 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.222 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 1019\/1000000\nRevision size: 2217\/2097152 bytes\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 30004\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 17724\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 23\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 4\/500\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 4058\/5000000 bytes\nLua time usage: 0.045\/10.000 seconds\nLua memory usage: 1666450\/52428800 bytes\nNumber of Wikibase entities loaded: 0\/500\n--><br \/>\n<!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%  175.005      1 -total\n 61.39%  107.440      1 Template:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine\n 59.81%  104.663      2 Template:Infobox\n 58.47%  102.321      1 Template:Infobox\/p1\n 57.10%   99.926      1 Template:Infobox\/p2\n 53.37%   93.406     14 Template:Evalx\n 41.86%   73.253     13 Template:Infobox\/lookup\n 22.89%   40.057      1 Template:InfoboxStart\n 19.89%   34.802      2 Template:Infosection\n 16.46%   28.806      1 Template:Publish\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwikinews:stable-pcache:3018042:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20251207035203 and revision id 4869156. 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