A high-rise building burns in Kyiv after a Russian strike, November 14, 2025

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UPDATE 0815 GMT:

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the European Union has provided Ukraine with an additional €6 billion ($6.98 billion) in direct budget assistance.

Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced the receipt of €4.1 billion ($4.77 billion), from the interest on seized Russian assets, and €1.8 billion ($2 billion) through the EU’s Ukraine Facility program.

UPDATE 0802 GMT:

The toll in Ukraine from Russia’s missile and drone strikes has risen to four murdered and 25 wounded.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky reported the casualties from the “wicked attack”, with Russia firing around 430 drones and 18 missiles.

This was a deliberately calculated attack aimed at causing maximum harm to people and civilian infrastructure….

Ukraine is responding to these strikes with long-range strength, and the world must stop these attacks on life with sanctions.

UPDATE 0619 GMT:

Ukraine used its domestically-produced Flamingo cruise missile and drones to strike “several dozen objects” inside Russia and Russian-occupied territories on Thursday, says the Ukrainian General Staff said.

The Staff said struck targets included a marine oil terminal in occupied Crimea, a helicopter parking lot and UAV storage area, training areas at the Kirovsk airfield, an air defense radar station, and an oil depot and forward command posts in the partly-occupied Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine.

With a warhead of up to 1,150 kg (2,535 pounds), the Flamingo has a range of 3,000 km (1,864 miles) and can land within 14 meters (45ft) of its target.

Early Friday, Ukrainian drones set afire and damaged the Sheskharis oil terminal in the port city of Novorossiysk in southern Russia.

The facility is the terminus for pipelines of Russia’s State-run Transneft, the world’s largest oil pipeline company.

Russian officials reported several coastal facilities had been damaged. The Novorossiysk mayor declared a state of emergency.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: At least one civilian has been killed and at least 25 injured, including a 10-year-old child and a pregnant woman, in Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Friday.

At least 11 multi-story buildings were struck, triggering explosions and fires. The fatality was in Desnianskyi district, wher fire engulfed the 5th to 8th floors of a high-rise.

Nine of the wounded were hospitalized. Rescuers evacuated more than 40 people.

The first explosions were around 12:45 a.m. Two additional waves followed between 1 and 1:30 a.m.

“The Russians are striking residential buildings,” said the head of the military administration, Tymur Tkachenko. “Many high-rise buildings across Kyiv have been affected, in almost every district.”

A hospital, a school, and buildings at a sports facility were also hit. Sections of the heating network were damaged.

The Russians also fired drones and dozens of missiles on central, southern, and eastern regions.

In the wider Kyiv region, six civilians were injured including a 7-year-old boy. Homes, warehouses, industrial sites, and cars were damaged.