Air raid sirens wailed across Kyiv for hours overnight as Russia unleashed what Ukraine’s Air Force called the largest single aerial barrage of the war: roughly 600 strike drones and 90 missiles fired in a concentrated wave that lit up radar screens from the capital to the country’s southern oblasts.

EADaily, June 2nd, 2026. Today, the Russian Armed Forces launched the first massive strike on Ukraine with Zircon missiles. This was stated by Ukrainian aviation expert Valery Romanenko.

Russia launched one of its biggest recent attacks on Ukraine, firing over 600 drones and dozens of missiles overnight, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100 despite widespread interceptions,

Russia launched a large-scale aerial attack against Ukraine overnight on June 2, targeting Kyiv with missile and drone fire.

EADaily, June 2nd, 2026. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, said that Russia would intensify attacks on Ukrainian missile manufacturers. He stated this in his telegram channel after a meeting with the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleg Ivashchenko.

Russia and Belarus have conducted major joint nuclear exercises featuring ballistic and hypersonic missile launches. Footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry showed an Iskander-M ballistic missile launch from the Astrakhan region and a Zircon hypersonic missile launch from the Barents Sea.