Kyiv under air attack after truce expires: Ukrainian authorities

The alert siren in Kyiv was the first confirmed in the capital since Friday, ahead of the ceasefire taking effect, and residents were urged to shelter as the air defences operated in the area.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said air defence duty assets intercepted and destroyed 27 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov regions from midnight to 7:00 am Moscow time (2100 to 0400 GMT).

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a man was killed and a woman was wounded in Synelnykove. Three others were wounded in strikes elsewhere in the region, according to Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional military administration, who posted the information on Telegram.

As the three-day ceasefire ended, Kyiv was attacked by drones. The head of Kyiv’s military administration said ‘Enemy UAVs are currently over Kyiv’ and urged residents to stay safe until the alert was cleared.

The article notes that even before the truce expired, Moscow and Kyiv traded accusations of attacks on civilians that violated the ceasefire.

Zelensky also said it was 'clear that the war in Iran is now drawing the most attention from America' in his remarks amid ongoing tensions.

In his daily address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there was no silence at the front and that fighting with Russia was ongoing despite the truce, adding that 'we have recorded all of this.'

U.S. President Donald Trump announced a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine, hours before Russia’s World War II victory celebrations, saying he hoped it would mark 'the beginning of the end' of the four-year-old conflict.