Verifying footage of strikes on Ukrainepublished at 10:11 British Summer Time
Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Verify journalist
We’re reviewing images out of western Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, following reports of overnight drone and missile strikes killing six people and injuring dozens.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kyiv mayor Vitality Klitschko are among those sharing images from the scene.
We’re confident the material posted by Zelensky is from this morning. The images haven’t appeared publicly before and the weather matches. We’ve also geolocated the partially collapsed building seen in the video.
Image source, State Emergency Service of UkraineThis image was posted on Telegram this morning by President Zelensky, and geolocated to a block in western Kyiv
We’re now turning our attention to a video posted by Klitschko – as well as images reportedly from Bucha on the Kyiv outskirts.
Meanwhile, there are reports that Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine has been taken by Russian forces. The town has been the focus of intense Russian attacks since February.
At least two open source-focused websites have reported Russian flags being flown there. The city is located on route to a larger industrial area of the Donbas and is seen as strategically important. We saw many images from there as a staging post for the Ukrainian army in their defence of nearby Bakhmut in 2023.
However, the presence of flags alone do not mean control has been taken.
We’ll continue to review images from Chasiv Yar and elsewhere in Ukraine.