Published on 6/15/2026
Three people were killed and others were injured in the Russian city of Tula, located about 200 kilometers south of Moscow, as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack, while Russia launched a large-scale air attack on Kiev on Monday.
Tula Governor Dmitry Mileyev said on the Telegram platform that a residential area in the city was attacked by drones, adding, “Unfortunately, according to preliminary information, three people were killed and three others were injured, including a one-year-old child.”
Damage to the Kyiv monastery
In Kiev, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on the Telegram application that 13 people were injured and that a fire broke out inside the famous Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery following a large-scale Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital, calling on residents to take shelter.
Klitschko explained that the attack damaged power lines and left about 140,000 residents of the capital without electricity, adding that some homes and cars caught fire after drone debris fell on them.
In turn, the head of the military department in Kiev, Timur Tkachenko, said in another post on Telegram that the Monastery of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra – included in the UNESCO World Heritage List – was severely damaged as a result of being subjected to a direct attack.
“A brutal attack on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko wrote in a post on the X platform. The post showed burning buildings in the monastery.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that drones continued to attack Kiev from different directions, while explosions were heard in the city.
Air raid warnings were issued in most Ukrainian regions during the early hours of Monday morning.
Dead in Kharkiv
In Kharkiv, 5 rescue personnel were killed and at least 5 others were injured in Russian strikes that targeted the city while they were fighting fires, according to what Interior Minister Igor Klimenko announced on Monday.
Klimenko explained, in a post on Telegram, that “five rescue personnel in the government emergency service were killed in Kharkiv (northeast) while fighting fires as a result of repeated Russian strikes. At least five others were injured,” at a time when regions of Ukraine are under intense attacks. Local authorities also reported attacks in the Dnipro region.
