Russia carried out a large-scale missile and drone attack across Ukraine early on Saturday, Dec. 6, triggering nationwide air raid alerts and striking multiple cities. At least three people were injured in the Kyiv region, officials said.
Ukraine’s Air Force tracked 704 incoming aerial targets overnight, including 51 missiles—17 ballistic—and 653 drones, mostly Shahed and Gerbera, launched from Russia and Crimea. Moscow also fired three Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, 34 cruise missiles, and 14 ballistic missiles.
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Ukraine’s air defenses shot down or neutralized 615 targets, including 585 drones, 29 cruise missiles, and one ballistic missile. Still, some strikes hit 29 locations, with 60 drones reaching their targets and debris from downed weapons falling in three areas.
“The main targets of these strikes, once again, were energy facilities. Russia’s aim is to inflict suffering on millions of Ukrainians,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media.
According to multiple monitoring channels, Russia launched several waves of missiles and dozens of drones toward the capital region, including aircraft capable of firing Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
Drone sightings were reported as far west as Lviv region, with the latest missile launches recorded shortly before 7 a.m. local time. Explosions were reported in Poltava, Lutsk, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Bila Tserkva.
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In the Kyiv region, the railway station in Fastiv was destroyed, and fires broke out in Novi Petrivtsi and at a home in Bucha. Governor Mykola Kalashnyk said a 42-year-old man in Fastiv suffered shrapnel wounds, while two women, aged 40 and 46, were injured in the Vyshhorod district north of Kyiv. One of them was hospitalized.
Ukraine’s railway authority said Fastiv was hit in a “massive shelling of railway infrastructure.”
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, fires broke out in several cities, including strikes on homes in Pavlohrad and infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih, regional governor Viacheslav Haivanenko said. An 11-year-old boy was also injured in Nikopol.
In Lutsk, several food warehouses caught fire, leaving parts of the city without electricity. The Lviv region also reported partial power outages.
Poland’s Air Force said it scrambled fighter jets to secure Polish airspace during the hours-long attack on western Ukraine.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said energy facilities in Chernihiv and the surrounding region were also targeted. Fires caused by the strikes were quickly contained, and no casualties were reported there.
The latest strikes come as Washington advances a diplomatic plan to end the war – a proposal that Kyiv fears could require major concessions to Moscow.
Ukrainian and US officials are set to hold a third straight day of talks in Miami on Saturday. Washington has said both sides agree that any “real progress” will depend on Russia’s willingness to end the war.
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner have been meeting with Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov and Andrii Hnatov, the chief of staff of Ukraine’s armed forces.
The Miami meetings follow a visit to Moscow earlier this week, where Witkoff and Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the US plan. The Kremlin rejected parts of the proposal.
Washington’s initial draft – prepared without input from European partners – reportedly suggested that Kyiv pull back from parts of Donetsk and that the US would effectively acknowledge Russia’s control over Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea. The proposal drew swift criticism from Kyiv and European capitals.
US officials have since revised the document, though the current terms have not been made public.