Russia launched heavy overnight missile and drone strikes across Ukraine as a coordinated viral hoax falsely claimed President Zelenskyy was killed.
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.