The Daily Populous Friday June 6th, 2025 evening edition
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Russia launches huge missile and drone attack across Ukraine on same night, killing four, after

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Ukraine targeted a Russian fuel depot situated near to a strategic bomber air base overnight.

Pictures on social media showed the Engels oil refinery, based in Saratov Oblast in western Russia, engulfed in flames.

The oil refinery is situated near one of Russia’s key airfields, housing long-range bombers including the Tu-95 and Tu-160.

There were also reports of an explosion near Bryansk airport, not far from the border with Ukraine.

On the same night, Russia launched a huge missile and drone attack on Kyiv, killing four people and wounding 20, authorities said.

Overnight:💥🔥 A fuel depot near Russia’s strategic Engels airbase has been struck.

There are also reports of attacks targeting the Diaghilev airbase in the Ryazan region and an electronics plant in the Tambov region. pic.twitter.com/PPb5Td3mdr — Shaun Pinner (@olddog100ua) June 6, 2025

The air attack triggered fires in residential buildings across the city and disrupted the city’s metro transport system.

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said rescue workers were still looking for people under the rubble of buildings and warned the death toll could rise.

The assault came just days after Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump “very strongly” that Russia “will have to respond” to Ukraine’s recent devastating drone attacks on airfields.

In one of its most elaborate assaults of the war, Kyiv had used more than 100 drones to strike air bases deep inside Russia on Sunday, targeting dozens of nuclear-capable long-range bombers and other aircraft in a surprise attack.

Fires in Kyiv after a Russian drone strike (Photo:Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

A man looks from a window of a residential multi-storey building damaged after the Russian drone attack on Kyiv (Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Russia had launched more than 400 drones and over 40 missiles at Ukraine overnight.

He urged allies to pressure the Kremlin to end the war. “If someone does not put pressure and gives the war more time to take lives, they are complicit and responsible. We need to act decisively,” he wrote on social media.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said drones had approached the city in waves and air defence units tried to repel them. He later warned of a risk of ballistic missiles being deployed against the city.

Some Kyiv residents sought shelter in metro stations or underground car parks.

Witnesses told the Reuters news agency they had seen a series of explosions and at least one large fire at one site of a drone impact.

Tkachenko said drones had struck the upper floors of a high-rise apartment building and started a fire in Darnytskyi district on the east side of the city, where he said emergency power cuts were possible.

One unofficial Telegram channel said a shopping centre in the area was ablaze.

Tkachenko said a fire had also broken out in an apartment building in a western district. He said drone fragments had been spotted in three districts.

Meanwhile, Russia said it intercepted 174 Ukrainian drones and three Ukrainian missiles over the Black Sea.

Haenryk on June 6th, 2025 at 11:15 UTC »

Keep em coming boys (and girls).

kutusow_ on June 6th, 2025 at 10:58 UTC »

So many good news in recent days

theipaper on June 6th, 2025 at 10:44 UTC »

Ukraine targeted a Russian fuel depot situated near to a strategic bomber air base overnight.

Pictures on social media showed the Engels oil refinery, based in Saratov Oblast in western Russia, engulfed in flames.

The oil refinery is situated near one of Russia’s key airfields, housing long-range bombers including the Tu-95 and Tu-160.

There were also reports of an explosion near Bryansk airport, not far from the border with Ukraine.

On the same night, Russia launched a huge missile and drone attack on Kyiv, killing four people and wounding 20, authorities said.