A dramatic video has surfaced showing a Russian drone hitting a residential building in Ukraine, marking the latest strike by Vladimir Putin on the beleaguered nation.
Ukrainian officials reported that Russia launched a massive overnight offensive involving hundreds of drones and numerous missiles, leading to at least four fatalities in Kyiv’s capital on Friday.
The footage captures the moment a drone zips through the Kyiv skyline, colliding with an apartment tower, followed by the resounding roar of an explosion.
In the aftermath, the building is engulfed in flames, with car alarms blaring in the background.
City officials disclosed that the drone assault inflicted damage on residential structures and vital infrastructure, causing both casualties and injuries.
As a consequence of the attack, certain areas of the city are experiencing disruptions in electricity and water supplies.
For only the second time in the nearly four-year-old war, Russia also used a powerful, new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies.
The nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile struck the city of Lviv after it was fired from Russia’s Kapustin Yar test range near the Caspian Sea in southwestern Russia.
A Russian drone is seen here whizzing over Kyiv before striking a tower block
Footage shows the moment the drone strikes the apartment building before the tower block erupts in flames
Smoke is seen billowing out from a residential building after a drone struck Kyiv
It took less than 15 minutes to explode over the city in a trademark shower of bright flashes with the night sky turning red.
Russia claimed the strike was a response to a Ukrainian bid to kill Putin with a strike on his palace in Valdai, which Kyiv denies.
Moscow didn’t say where the Oreshnik hit, but Russian media and military bloggers said it targeted an underground natural gas storage facility in the Lviv region.
Western military aid flows to Ukraine from a supply hub in Poland just across the border.
Putin has previously said the Oreshnik streaks to its target at Mach 10, ‘like a meteorite,’ and is immune to any missile defense system.
Several of them used in a conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack, according to Putin, who has warned the West that Russia could use it against allies of Kyiv that allow it to strike inside Russia with longer-range missiles.
Ukrainian intelligence says the missile has six warheads, each carrying six submunitions.
Russia first used the Oreshnik missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024. Analysts say it gives Russia a new element of psychological warfare, unnerving Ukrainians and intimidating Western countries that aid Ukraine.
A man takes a photo from his window of the aftermath of the Russian attack on a residential apartment building on January 9, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Firefighters put out a fire in a destroyed brick building after a Russian drone-and-missile attack on January 9, 2026 in Kyiv,
A man looks at a damaged ambulance after a Russian drone-and-missile attack on January 9, 2026 in Kyiv
Russia launched a massive attack on the Ukrainian capital with drones and missiles, hitting multiple districts of Kyiv
The latest strikes from Russia come as Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine would be initiating international action in response to the use of the missile, including an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council and a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council.
The Security Council scheduled a Monday afternoon meeting on Ukraine.
‘Such a strike close to EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community. We demand strong responses to Russia’s reckless actions,’ he said in a post on X.
Ukraine’s request for an emergency meeting of the Security Council has been conveyed to the council, and six of the 15 members have called for a meeting on Monday, but no date has been set yet, a UN diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions have been private.
Pope Leo XIV, speaking at the Vatican, urged the international community to keep pushing for peace and end the suffering in Ukraine.
‘Faced with this tragic situation, the Holy See strongly reiterates the pressing need for an immediate ceasefire, and for dialogue motivated by a sincere search for ways leading to peace,’ the pontiff told ambassadors to the Vatican from around the world.
The leaders of Britain, France and Germany said they spoke about the attack and deemed it ‘escalatory and unacceptable.’
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Security Service on January 9, 2026 reportedly shows a fragment of a Russian Oreshnik ballistic missile at an undisclosed location
EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the Oreshnik launch was ‘meant as a warning to Europe and to the U.S.’
‘Putin doesn’t want peace, Russia’s reply to diplomacy is more missiles and destruction,’ Kallas wrote on social media.
