7 Jun 2025

Collecting the stories on the ground in Ukraine

From Saturday Morning, 7:20 am on 7 June 2025
People walk past a multistory residential building  damaged following  a drone strike in Kyiv on May 25, 2025, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Russia launched a record number of drones against Ukraine and killed 12 people across the country, officials said on May 25, even as Kyiv and Moscow completed their biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the war. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

Photo: AFP/SERGEI SUPINSKY

Several people have been killed and dozens wounded in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight as Russia launched drone and missile attacks. 

Russian president Vladimir Putin had promised retaliatory strikes after Ukraine launched a series of drone strikes targeting military sites and the power grid.

Maksimas Milta is the Ukraine Country Director for The Reckoning Project, an NGO that collects testimonies from witnesses to bombings and violence across the country.

He speaks to Mihi.

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