New Delhi: Ukraine faced another wave of Russian attacks on Sunday, with ballistic missiles, drones and a glide bomb hitting several regions and killing at least six people. A supermarket in Chernihiv was among the targets, while Kyiv, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia also reported deaths and injuries.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired seven ballistic missiles and launched 136 drones overnight. The attacks affected Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv. Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, condemned the strike, calling it a deliberate attack on civilians.
In Kharkiv, one person was killed and 16 others needed medical treatment following a daytime drone attack, according to the city’s mayor. A Russian glide bomb strike in Zaporizhzhia killed one person and injured six others, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.
Kyiv also came under an overnight missile attack. A fire broke out on the seventh and eighth floors of an apartment building in a central district, leaving three people wounded. Emergency services also reported burning vehicles. In Sloviansk, two employees of Ukraine’s national oil and gas company Naftogaz were killed while assisting residents affected by an earlier Russian strike.
Russian regions also report Ukrainian attacks
At the same time, Russian authorities reported deaths and injuries from Ukrainian drone strikes. In occupied Horlivka in Donetsk region, Russian-installed mayor Ivan Prikhodko said four civilians were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack. He later said another drone struck an emergency vehicle, injuring three medics and another resident.
Authorities in Russia’s Belgorod region said 12 people, including two children, were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack. The reports came a day after Moscow said a Ukrainian strike on a Russian-occupied town on the Azov Sea had killed 12 people.
Both sides deny deliberately attacking civilians. United Nation figures show that civilian casualties have risen sharply in 2026, with drones, glide bombs and attacks on infrastructure contributing to the increase.
The UN said 1,396 civilians were killed and 7,978 injured in Ukraine during the first six months of 2026. In Russia, 250 civilians were killed and 1,596 injured.
Zelenskyy to meet UK PM
Amid the continuing fighting, Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is set to meet UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, on Monday during his first overseas visit since Burnham became prime minister.
The two leaders will visit a naval base where Ukrainian troops have been receiving training. They are expected to meet British and Ukrainian military personnel who participated in exercise Sea Breeze, a 15-country training deployment involving mine exercises and other maritime operations in the Black Sea.
More than 200 Ukrainian personnel took part in the second phase of this year’s exercise in Portland, Dorset, which ended on Friday.
Burnham and Zelenskyy will also discuss joint projects, including Stone Cloak, an electronic jammer developed with British support. The UK has shared the system’s intellectual property with Ukraine, enabling its immediate use. Thousands of the tablet-sized jammers have been supplied to Ukraine for installation on drones, helping prevent Russian air-defence systems from tracking and targeting them.
Ukraine can now mass-produce the jammers, which are also expected to be fitted to new British weapons, including cruise missiles. Burnham has reiterated Britain’s support for Ukraine and said the UK would continue backing the country until a lasting and just peace is achieved.
According to statistics released by No. 10, Britain’s total support for Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 has reached £25 billion, including £16 billion in military assistance.
The visit follows Zelenskyy’s earlier meeting with former prime minister Keir Starmer in Kyiv. US-led efforts to end the war have stalled, while Russia continues to hold parts of eastern and southern Ukraine.