Drone strike hits Kyiv petrol station as attacks reported across Ukraine and Russia

Kyiv, Ukraine. A drone struck a petrol station in Ukraine’s capital early on Tuesday, injuring one person, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to target each other’s energy assets.

Klitschko said warehouse facilities in another part of Kyiv were also struck. A Reuters witness heard an explosion in the city.

Kyiv attacks

Russia has recently begun targeting petrol stations in Kyiv, expanding the range of facilities under attack. Ukrainian authorities said Russia had struck about 300 petrol stations in recent months, mainly in or near frontline regions.

Reuters could not immediately independently verify the reports.

Poland and Lithuania responses

As attacks were reported in Ukraine, neighbouring Poland briefly launched military aviation operations as a preventive measure, the Polish Armed Forces said on X. It later said there had been no violation of Polish airspace.

In Lithuania, a NATO fighter jet shot down a drone early on Tuesday, the Lithuanian National Crisis Management Centre said. A drone alert had earlier been issued in Vilnius and the surrounding region.

Military drones entering the airspace of countries neighbouring Ukraine and Russia have heightened concerns that the war could spill over NATO borders.

Reports of attacks in Russia

In Russia, a Ukrainian missile attack damaged a warehouse belonging to e-commerce company Ozon in the southern port city of Taganrog, among other facilities, the regional governor said on Telegram.

Separately, a drone attack struck an industrial facility in the Samara region on the Volga River, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on Telegram, without identifying the site. The region is home to several large oil refineries.

Energy-site ceasefire proposal

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv was ready to support a U.S. proposal for a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire covering energy sites, provided Washington could ensure Moscow was genuinely prepared to end the war.