Overview
- Russian missile and drone attacks on Kyiv on December 27 lasted for many hours, killing one person and injuring at least 32, with widespread damage to residential and energy infrastructure.
- Ukraine’s air defense reported intercepting 503 incoming targets during the assault, yet strikes hit around 30 locations in and around the capital.
- Power and heat were heavily disrupted in winter conditions, with DTEK restoring electricity to nearly 750,000 Kyiv households after outages that had affected more than one million.
- Ukraine said it hit the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery with Storm Shadow missiles and reported strikes on the Temryuk port and an airfield in Adygea, while Russian authorities claimed dozens of Ukrainian drones were shot down over regions including Volgograd and Samara and reported no damage in some areas; separate reports pointed to new drone attacks on the Syzran refinery.
- Drone activity over Russia disrupted civil aviation, with operations paused at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports and more than 300 flights canceled or delayed, according to Russian officials and state media.