A video showing missiles striking central Kyiv in 2024 has been falsely suggested by social media users to show Moscow’s retaliation in June 2025 to Ukraine’s drone attack inside Russia.

Russia launched 315 drones at Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was “one of the largest” attacks on the capital Kyiv, with local officials in the southern port city of Odesa also reporting a maternity ward there had been hit.

Air raid sirens rang out in Ukraine’s capital as an overnight Russian missile and drone attack killed at least four people and injured 20 others. The attack followed a warning from President Putin that Russia would hit back after Ukrainian drones destroyed several strategic bomber aircraft deep inside Russia.