Residents look on as emergency service carry out search and rescue at a heavily damaged apartment block following Russia’s missile and drone strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2025 (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty)

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UPDATE 1825 GMT:

UK military intelligence notes a 53% increase in artificial limbs in Russia in 2024, including a 75% rise in arm prosthetics.

The independent Russia outlet Verstka has reported that injured Russian soldiers with amputated limbs have been left waiting for extended periods awaiting treatment.

The British analysts conclude, “Russia is almost certainly failing to provide necessary combat treatment at the front line, which in turn contributes to a greater number of long-term serious injuries amongst Russia soldiers.”

That in turn has “a detrimental long-term impact on both medical and social services in Russia”.

UPDATE 1647 GMT:

The toll from Russia’s overnight strikes has been revised down to 10 murdered in Kyiv and two in Odesa.

Earlier reports cited 15 killed in Kyiv. Ukraine Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko explained:

Operational information often requires correction, as body parts discovered during search and rescue operations may initially be recorded as separate fatalities. Final confirmation comes from forensic experts after analysis in a mobile DNA laboratory.

UPDATE 1159 GMT:

The Trump Administration has buried an inter-agency working group which it established in the spring for strategies to pressure Russia into talks to end its invasion of Ukraine.

Officials said the effort stalled as Donald Trump made clear that he was not interested in any measures limiting the Kremlin’s ambitions. When Trump said he might abandon US efforts for peace, the working group’s task seemed irrelevant.

“It lost steam toward the end because the President wasn’t there. Instead of doing more, maybe he wanted to do less,” said one official.

UPDATE 1027 GMT:

The toll from Russia’s strikes on Kyiv has risen to 15 murdered and 114 injured.

In Odesa in southern Ukraine, two civilians have been slain and 17 wounded, including a child and a pregnant woman.

UPDATE 0759 GMT:

Russia fired 472 missiles and drones overnight, close to the daily record of 499 during its 39 1/2-month invasion.

Air defenses downed 239 of 280 Iran-type attack drones, decoy drones, and 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles. One Kinzhal missile was intercepted and another lost from radar tracking.

At least 13 civilians, including one child, were hospitalized after Russian drone strikes on Odesa in southern Ukraine. Civilian infrastructure and residential buildings across the port city were damaged.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: At least 14 civilians have been killed and at least 99 injured by an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.

The Russian assault lasted almost nine hours, causing damage in at least 12 districts. Targets including high-rise apartment blocks a kindergarten, and a dormitory, with at least 18 civilians injured in a five-story residential building in the Solomianskyi district.

Emergency workers are digging through rubble to search for other victims.

Visiting the site of a damaged high-rise in western Kyiv, Vitalii Klitschko said thirty apartments were destroyed: “There could be people under the rubble, and we can’t exclude that the number of dead may rise.”

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported, “A ballistic missile had a direct hit on a nine-story apartment building, a section is destroyed, and is destroyed right down to the basement because it was a direct hit.”

The Russians also fired on the Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, and Mykolaiv regions.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted:

Such attacks are pure terrorism. And the whole world, the United States, and Europe must finally respond as a civilized society responds to terrorists.

Putin does this solely because he can afford to continue the war. He wants the war to go on. It is wrong when the powerful of this world turn a blind eye to it. We are in contact with all partners at every possible level to ensure an appropriate response. It is the terrorists who must feel the pain, not innocent peaceful people.