Moscow Claims Massive Strike on Ukraine's Missile and Drone Production

Russia's Defense Ministry announced a massive strike using precision weapons and drones on Ukrainian military targets, according to Breaking The News. The ministry claims it destroyed enterprises producing and storing cruise missiles and long- and medium-range UAVs. It also says it hit transport infrastructure in Kyiv, a logistics center in the Kharkiv region, and sea vessels supporting Ukraine's Armed Forces.

The strikes hit Kyiv hard. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said three buildings were struck, including an administrative building in the Podilskyi district and two nonresidential structures, according to Breaking The News. Earlier attacks on the capital killed at least one person and injured 10, most of them students from a university dormitory. Klitschko also reported damage to medical facilities and two ambulance workers injured while responding to an emergency call.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian ballistic missile struck the Kyoto Park campus. The violence continues even as a humanitarian ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump took effect Tuesday in Oleshky. Russia's defense ministry said its forces ceased fire at 4:00 am Moscow time on the Kherson front to allow aid and evacuations.

Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's special envoy and RDIF CEO, praised the ceasefire on X, calling it an example of President Trump's humanitarian approach. He wrote that EU and UK bureaucrats have a lot to learn from it. The dual developments—bloody strikes and a localized truce—paint a complicated picture of the war's trajectory.