Key Points and Summary – Russia launched one of its “biggest air assaults” since the war began, striking Kyiv overnight with “hundreds” of missiles and drones, killing at least six civilians and injuring dozens.
-The “wicked” attack, which damaged 30 residential buildings and the Azerbaijani embassy, was condemned by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius as showing Russia’s “contempt for humanity.”
T-64 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
-The attack comes as Ukraine’s own long-range campaign continues, briefly halting exports at Russia’s Novorossiysk oil port.
-President Zelenskyy called Ukraine’s retaliatory “Long Neptune” missile strikes a “justified answer to Russia’s terror.”
The Ukraine War Goes from Bad to Worse
Russia just launched one of its biggest air assaults on Ukraine since its full-scale invasion began over three years ago. Hundreds of missiles and drones were directed toward Kyiv overnight on Thursday, killing at least six people.
Dozens more were injured, including a pregnant woman and two children.
The Ukrainian capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said most of Kyiv’s districts had been hit, with several buildings being set on fire.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko reported that some 30 residential buildings in Kyiv suffered damage, and that “Families went to sleep expecting a normal night and instead faced terror from the sky”.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called the assault “wicked” and said it was clearly aimed at causing maximum damage to civilians and Ukraine’s energy network. Debris from an Iskander missile also struck the Azerbaijani embassy in Kyiv.
Following the onslaught, Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius said the strikes showed Russia’s “contempt for humanity,” arguing that Putin is trying to make winter “as unbearable as possible” for Ukrainians.
Brussels also weighed in, with the European Parliament’s president Roberta Metsola warning that the EU “will not allow indifference to creep in” while Russia targets homes and power stations.
It comes the same week as the EU Parliament has vowed to wean itself off Russian energy by 2028.
This came at the same time as Ukraine’s own long-range campaign deep into Russian territory continues to rattle Moscow. According to Reuters, exports from the Black Sea oil port of Novorossiysk were briefly stopped in the wake of a Ukrainian drone attack.
This comes at a time when the majority of Russia’s export revenue is from fossil fuels. Russia also claimed to have neutralized drones aimed toward its Novovoronezh nuclear power plant.
Zelensky announced that Ukraine responded overnight with its “Long Neptune” missiles, adding that these strikes were “a justified answer to Russia’s terror.”
He reiterated his plea that Western allies ought to unfreeze Russian assets to finance his war effort and speed up deliveries of interceptor systems.
Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.
Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
As the people of Kyiv are once again forced to clear the rubble and attempt to return to some form of normality, the looming question is: when will this end?
The Kremlin’s maximalist land demands, the failure of Washington-brokered talks, and grinding warfare in the Donbas mean there is no clear end in sight yet.
Ukrainians now picking through the remains of their apartments are focused on something much more straightforward — the hope that the next siren will not be followed by a deadly blast.
About the Author: Georgia Gilholy
Georgia Gilholy is a journalist based in the United Kingdom who has been published in Newsweek, The Times of Israel, and the Spectator. Gilholy writes about international politics, culture, and education. You can follow her on X: @llggeorgia.
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Swamplaw Yankee
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 am
When will it end? Is this a JK level op-ed?
When did the 1000 year old evacuation of England end? When the genocide of Saxons started in 1066, the Normans had what in mind: starting to speak Saxon? The Norman invaders went village to village debasing the little children and killing the Saxon educated.
The Saxons loaded up a huge fleet and fled Their Homeland, setting up Saxon colonies on the shores of the North Black Sea, aka Ukraine. Yes, all of England knows what gory end these Saxon Christians suffered!
The only difference in comparison to Ukraine, is that the Christian Normans did not mass abduct all the little Saxon Christian children for sale to the Muslim Ottoman or Moroccan Slave buyers.
This is a 1000 year old Genocide of Ukrainians by a ethnic group that bred to butcher and mass abduct Ukrainians for personal deviation and sale to their client, the Muslim Ottoman Slave buyer. What do these UK writers of 2025 not understand. The Kremlin Ruuzzkie butchers have a long, long time frame in mind. The Muscovy bred their progeny to kill + sell Ukrainians five hundred, six, or seven hundreds years back. It was a genetic need to biannually mass abduct little children, abuse them + sell for needed annual GNP income for the tsar.
Table top dancing of kiddies, ruuzzkie style, was not invented by Stalin or Putin! Human trafficking of Ukrainians is an inherited genetic occupation of the Kremlin Muscovy ruuzzkies. What do these op-ed JK minds not get clear?
The new stuff: well, the mass abduction of little girls for “Lolita” packages still is a big Putin concern. The hunting of huge numbers of little Ukrainian boys for Castration is down since 1922. The huge number of death of boys from castration stopped when the last Muslim empress + emperor left their ancient harems in 1922.
The Ukrainian Fathers finally are working on the mathematics of the Conway value of zero. With the recent first Moscow power failures gifted to the protected Moscovy mass abducters by the Ukrainian Fathers, the positive number of Gifts from Ukraine will slowly grow to match the negative values that Putin inflicts on Ukrainian cities.
Neither player in the electric power ‘Blackout game’ has a winning move and they can only move to zero the neutral value. The problem, the muscovites have to acknowledge that their voluntary trade of their freedom for stability under Kremlin’s Putin has failed.
Till the muscovites understand that their fear of more power “Blackout Games” is now permanent, that is when the muscovites refuse to or make their Zugswang with Putin.
Till then, Putin’s promise to supply Free little “Lolita” packages to all and any very needy Ruuzzkie language teacher is full filled daily. Muscovy deviants luxuriate and support Putin 101% as Putin is true to his word to give the muscovites as many little Ukrainian children as they can abuse. Ancient Muscovy families resume family customs + send their genetically bred ruuzzkie butchers to the meat grinder front trench Genocide Line! There they can funnel + force captive small nation aboriginals to attack Ukrainians or have grenades thrown at their backs.
The 2025 MAGA POTUS Trump refuses to stop his self promoted scam that his self appointment as illegal adjudicator of the FREE real estate of Ukraine theft is somehow legitimate. Trump refuses to try and Hang em high POTUS Obama who in 2008- 2014 showed moral turpitude as he betrayed the WEST.
The 2014 POTUS Obama Democrat Cabal unilaterally, covertly, green lit the geopolitical loss to NATO the Ukraine’s ancient Crimean soil, families and Black/Azov Sea vast jurisdictional zones to the prime vile COLD War enemy of the WEST, Kremlin ruuzzkie Putin. POTUS H. Obama unilaterally green lit in 2014 Putin’s “little green men” mass abduction of “Lolita” packages, the instant re-start of the 1000 year old Genocide of Ukrainians as marxists joyously celebrated the betrayal of the WEST thru the illegal giveaway of Ukraine’s Crimea by POTUS Obama’s inaction ‘sanction’ theatre. -30-