Why this mattersZelensky called this one hours before it happened.
In his evening address, he said Ukrainian intelligence had picked up Russian preparations for a new strike. Not just missiles. The energy grid. The bridges over the Dnipro River. Civilian infrastructure.
He says quote "a new strike is being prepared against the energy sector".
So the warning came in the evening. The missiles came within hours.
And this isn't Kyiv's first hit this month.
Four days ago, the city took its worst energy-infrastructure strike of the year. Blackouts. Water cut off for parts of the capital. Russia does this every winter — it goes after the power grid, year after year.
Kyiv is a city of three million people. Roughly the size of Berlin. It's been under near-constant attack for weeks.
Here's the thing. Nobody's confirmed whether energy infrastructure was actually hit this time. One local report says it was. Officials haven't backed that up.
Russia hasn't said a word. It doesn't usually comment on strikes while they're happening.
So here's the real question. Was this one night of missiles? Or is this the start of the bigger campaign Zelensky was warning about?
Nobody can answer that yet. Not the full count of people hurt beyond the one man. Not the full damage. Not what Kyiv wakes up to.
And there's one more thing nobody's straightened out. Reports differ on where a second fire broke out — one version of the story says Boryspil district, another says Brovary district. That hasn't been resolved either.