Russian missiles struck Ukrainian cities overnight as false online rumors falsely claimed President Zelenskyy was killed in a bunker attack.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces launched a broad wave of overnight missile and drone strikes targeting multiple Ukrainian regions, triggering nationwide air-raid sirens, sparking fires in municipal centers,and prompting urgent emergency deployments across urban corridors.
Concurrently,a flurry of fabricated social media posts circulated online falsely claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been killed in a precision strike on a command bunker. Ukrainian authorities, international intelligence monitoring groups, and accredited independent media confirmed that the claims are entirely baseless, representing the latest coordinated disinformation flare-up engineered to generate panic amid kinetic aerial bombardment.
The strikes began in the early morning hours, prompting regional military administrations to sound sirens and order residents into hardened bomb shelters and subterranean transit stations. Air defense crews engaged inbound threats, including Shahed-type loitering munitions and cruise missiles, across northern, southern, and central oblasts.