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Russia launched a record number of drones at Ukraine overnight into Friday, striking multiple buildings and residential areas, hours after US President Donald Trump said he had made “no progress” towards a ceasefire deal in a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

At least 23 people were wounded in the attack, which lasted 13 hours, according to Kyiv city and military authorities. Ukraine intercepted 476 out of a record 539 Russian drones, according to the country’s air force. It said Russia also launched 11 cruise and ballistic missiles.

Thousands of residents spent the night in shelters, including in subway stations or underground parking lots, as explosions and the sound of drones echoed through the city in the early hours of Friday morning.

“Absolutely horrible and sleepless night in Kyiv. One of the worst so far,” said Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha.

The strikes sparked fires in buildings and structures across several city districts, and partially destroying multi-story buildings, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. They also destroyed part of Kyiv’s railway, and damaged five ambulances that were responding to calls from those wounded.

People take shelter overnight in an underground subway station during missile strikes in Kyiv on July 4, 2025. Barbara Wojazer/AFP/Getty Images

In recent weeks, Russia has launched near-nightly air attacks on Ukraine involving hundreds of missiles and drones. Earlier this week Ukraine’s foreign minister said that in June alone, Russia launched over 330 missiles, including nearly 80 ballistic missiles, 5,000 combat drones, and 5,000 gliding bombs against Ukraine.

Before Friday, the last record-setting night of attacks came just five days ago – when Russia fired 537 drones and missiles at Ukraine.

On Thursday, Trump held a nearly hour-long call with Putin and voiced frustration afterward about the stalled ceasefire negotiations.

“We had a call. It was a pretty long call. We talked about a lot of things, including Iran and we also talked about, as you know, the war with Ukraine,” Trump said. “I’m not happy about that.”

Asked if he felt he made progress with Putin on a deal with Ukraine, Trump said firmly: “No.” He added, “I didn’t make any progress with him today at all.”

Trump said he would speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky early Friday morning, saying he was “very disappointed” with his conversation with Putin, whom he believes is “not looking to stop” the war.

The strikes come as the Trump administration pauses some weapons shipments to Ukraine, including air defense missiles, following a review of military spending and American support to foreign countries.

Trump acknowledged said that the decision had been made to protect US stockpiles.

The US has been the biggest single donor of military aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, supplying Ukraine with air defense systems, drones, rocket launchers, radars, tanks and anti-armor weapons, leading to concerns over dwindling US stockpiles.

But the balance of aid to Ukraine has changed significantly since Trump returned to power, casting doubt over the future of US support for Kyiv.

Trump and Putin did not discuss the pause in shipments to Ukraine during their call, according to Russian state media TASS, citing a Kremlin aide. However, Trump brought up ending the war “as early as possible” – to which Putin responded that Russia would not “back down” from its war goals in Ukraine, according to TASS.

Zelenskyy blasts ‘cynical’ Russian attack

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s huge overnight attacks on Ukraine were “demonstratively significant and cynical”.

The Ukrainian president said the first air raid alerts in the country began “almost simultaneously” with the start of yesterday’s phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

He says Kyiv was the main focus of Russia’s overnight bombardment, with the capital enduring a “hard, sleepless night”.

“All this is obvious proof that without really large-scale pressure, Russia will not change its stupid, destructive behaviour,” Zelenskyy adds.

He says sanctions and “other blows to their economy” are the only way to quickly change the situation for the better, “and it depends on the partners, primarily the United States”.

Zelenskyy blasts ‘cynical’ Russian attack

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s huge overnight attacks on Ukraine were “demonstratively significant and cynical”.

The Ukrainian president said the first air raid alerts in the country began “almost simultaneously” with the start of yesterday’s phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

He says Kyiv was the main focus of Russia’s overnight bombardment, with the capital enduring a “hard, sleepless night”.

“All this is obvious proof that without really large-scale pressure, Russia will not change its stupid, destructive behaviour,” Zelenskyy adds.

He says sanctions and “other blows to their economy” are the only way to quickly change the situation for the better, “and it depends on the partners, primarily the United States”.

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US president Donald Trump has said his latest “pretty long [phone] call” with Russian president Vladimir Putin trying to end the war in Ukraine resulted in “no progress at all” as fighting continued with several overnight drone strikes.

“I didn’t make any progress with him at all,” Mr Trump told reporters in brief comments at an air base outside Washington yesterday.

The US president also issued his first comments on the US decision to halt some weapon shipments for Ukraine. He defended the move, blaming his predecessor Joe Biden for sending too many weapons.

“We’re giving weapons, but we’ve given so many weapons. But we are giving weapons. And we’re working with them and trying to help them, but we haven’t… You know, Biden emptied out our whole country giving them weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves,” Mr Trump said.

The US has blocked a number of planned shipments to Ukraine that included Patriot air defence missiles and precision-guided artillery, warning that its own domestic stockpiles were running low, but said that “robust” options for Kyiv were still available.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict’s “root causes.” The two leaders did not discuss a recent pause in some US weapons shipments to Kyiv during the nearly hour-long conversation, according to a readout provided by Putin aide Yuri Ushakov. US attempts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine through diplomacy have largely stalled, and Trump has come under increased pressure – including from some Republicans – to increase pressure on Putin to negotiate in earnest. “I didn’t make any progress with him at all,” Trump told reporters in brief comments at an airbase outside Washington, before departing for a campaign-style event in Iowa. Putin, for his part, has continued to assert he will stop his invasion only if the conflict’s “root causes” have been addressed – Russian shorthand for the issue of Nato enlargement and western support for Ukraine.

Within hours of the call’s conclusion, Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv that injured 14 and sparked multiple fires. Witnesses reported explosions and sustained heavy fire overnight into Friday as air defence units battled drones over the capital. Damage was recorded in six of Kyiv’s 10 districts and falling drone debris set a medical facility on fire in the leafy Holosiivskyi district. Drone debris also sparked fires in warehouses and residential buildings in the Svyatoshynskyi, Solomanskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.

Ukraine launched a drone attack on the district of Sergiyev Posad near Moscow early on Friday, injuring one person and leaving parts of the religiously significant centre without power, the head of the district said. Oksana Yerokhanova said in a Telegram post that at least four explosions were recorded in the district – and that a power substation was damaged, leaving swaths of the area without electricity. The district’s administrative centre, the town of Sergiyev Posad, is considered the religious centre of the Moscow region and a spiritual heart of Russia’s Orthodox Church.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters in Denmark earlier in the day that he hopes to speak to Trump as soon as Friday about the ongoing pause in some weapons shipments, which was first disclosed earlier this week. The diplomatic back-and-forth comes as the US has paused shipments of certain critical weapons to Ukraine due to low stockpiles, just as Ukraine faces a Russian summer offensive and increasingly frequent attacks on civilian targets.

A senior commander meanwhile warned that the death of an experienced Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot in battle against Russian drones showed the high-risk tactics Kyiv will increasingly adopt if it is unable to obtain critical new air defences. Dozens of people have been killed during intensifying Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, a trend officials have said will worsen if Kyiv’s allies do not step up supplies of critical munitions. At the funeral for fighter pilot Maksym Ustymenkoin, Oleh Zakharchuk, deputy commander of Ukraine’s western air command said: “Everyone must understand that there is no such thing as enough weapons. If we cannot use the missiles because we do not get them, then it will be very difficult.”

Russia killed two people in an airstrike on the central Ukrainian city of Poltava on Thursday and damaged a military draft office there in what Kyiv said was a concerted campaign to disrupt recruitment for its war effort. The strike on Poltava, which also injured 47 people and caused a fire at the city’s main draft office, followed a drone attack on Monday near a recruitment centre in Kryvyi Rih. Both cities are regional capitals. “We understand that their [Russia’s] goal is to disrupt the mobilisation process,” Vitaliy Sarantsev, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s ground forces, told Ukraine’s public broadcaster.

The Russian military said Thursday it had captured the village of Milove in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, opening a new front on their shared border. Ukraine did not immediately comment on Russia’s claim. Milove lies on a section of the border that Moscow’s forces had not penetrated since their offensive began in 2022, and was home to several hundred people before the conflict.

The US company Techmet is likely to bid in the first pilot project of the Ukraine-US joint Reconstruction Investment Fund on a lithium mine in the centre of the country, Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister said on Thursday. Yulia Svyrydenko, writing on Facebook, reported on a meeting between Zelenskyy and US businesses, with much of the focus on the fund, meant to exploit Ukrainian minerals and rare earths. Svyrydenko said Ukraine hoped to have three pilot projects up and running in the first 18 months of operation, including the lithium mine in Kirovohrad region.

A deputy commander of the Russian navy who had previously led one of the military’s most notorious brigades was killed near the frontline with Ukraine, Moscow confirmed. Maj Gen Mikhail Gudkov, who was responsible for Russia’s marine units, was killed on Wednesday in a Ukrainian missile attack on a field headquarters in the Kursk region, amid reports the position had been revealed by poor security.