Videos shared by local Telegram channels and Hromadske between 7:15 and 7:45 AM UTC on December 27, 2025, captured Russian strike drones hitting residential high-rises in Kyiv's left bank, a university dormitory of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Kahovskii Residential Complex, as Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko reported eight casualties including a 16-year-old child across seven districts from the mass attack. Trukha Kyiv and Hromadske posted footage of the drone impacts on these sites during the 29-minute reporting window. Osinttechnical shared images of Ukrainian firefighters, wearing ballistic vests against double-tap strikes, tackling fires in burning homes and at emergency sites in Kyiv this morning, linking to State Emergency Service Telegram updates. Sergiy Kyslytsya stated Kyiv is recovering from the four-hour air alert with emergency workers assessing damage. These developments follow Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv between 5:15 and 7:15 AM UTC injuring eight, as previously reported by Mayor Vitali Klitschko, Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko, and monitoring channels. In related news, ATESH partisans claimed to have destroyed a telecommunications tower module near Berdyansk in Zaporozhye region at coordinates 46.8491042, 36.778039, disrupting Russian forces' communications including at Berdyansk airfield and Bashkortostan regiment units. NOELreports stated Denis Kapustin, founder and commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, was killed overnight on the Zaporizhzhia front during a combat mission, preliminarily by FPV drone strike. Radar VRV issued missile danger alerts for Rostov and Krasnodar regions.
