‘Hazel’ targeted Kiev.

After over a dozen Ukrainian drones destroyed a college dorm killing 21 people (mostly students) in Russian-conquered Luhansk, President Vladimir Putin vowed retaliation.

Overnight, a massive combined drone-missile strike targeted Kiev, reportedly culminating in the third attack with hypersonic Oreshnik (Hazel) missiles.

HUGE BLAST rocks Ukraine capital KIEV

Massive orange fireball lights up skyline over high-riseshttps://t.co/I7fF7YHNpW pic.twitter.com/TBKysQFNok

— RT (@RT_com) May 23, 2026

Reuters reported:

“Explosions reverberated through the city just after 1 a.m. (2200 GMT Saturday), following a warning by Ukraine’s air force on its Telegram ‌channel that Russia might launch a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile.

[…] Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that one person was believed to have been killed after a nine-story residential building in ​the capital’s central district of Shevchenko was hit. Emergency services were at the site extinguishing a blaze, the mayor said.

Klitschko said 21 people were injured, ​with 13 of those hospitalized, three of them in serious condition. Air raid sirens sounded ⁠again after sunrise on Sunday in Kyiv.”

WATCH: air defenses at work in Kiev.

| Kiev bajo fuego ruso esta noche. pic.twitter.com/jrBkb0hPn0

— Mundo en Conflicto (@MundoEConflicto) May 24, 2026

Several Telegram are circulating videos showing ‘clusters of bright objects rapidly descending from the sky’ that are reportedly footage of Russia’s intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system.

RT reported:

“The latest footage resembles videos that circulated in January, when Russia used the Oreshnik system in a strike on a Ukrainian aviation plant in Lviv that was repairing and servicing warplanes and producing long-range drones.

[…] Ukrainian authorities have also reported dozens of missile and drone impacts in Kiev and elsewhere across Ukraine, but the Russian Defense Ministry has yet to confirm the scale or targets of the reported combined strike.”

Warch: Oreshnik hits Kiev.

Rus ordusu Kiev’e hipersonik Oreshnik füzeleriyle saldırıyor. pic.twitter.com/SBHYS11Y1Z

— Conflict (@ConflictTR) May 23, 2026

Kiev https://t.co/e53pp0UA28 pic.twitter.com/L1fZsIL1Yv

— Conflict (@ConflictTR) May 24, 2026

Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight with a huge wave of missiles, kamikaze drones and a feared Oreshnik missile — used for the third time since the start of the full-scale invasion.

At least two people were killed and nearly 70 injured.https://t.co/9Zc6lLwngr pic.twitter.com/tW90T9VqXa

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) May 24, 2026

Biblical fireball after Russia hits Kiev arms plants pic.twitter.com/HZb4uDOqkD

— RT (@RT_com) May 24, 2026

Hellish scenes in Kyiv after massive overnight strikes by Russia

While people complain about civilian areas being hit, don’t forget that Ukraine also hits civilian areas; neither side has clean hands

This war needs to endpic.twitter.com/DeUKXHutyP https://t.co/yFVk49il6V

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 24, 2026

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