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Headline: RAW VIDEO: Stunning Space Station footage shows the Ukraine War in Kyiv's skies
Caption: BY MARK WORGAN This time-lapse video recorded from the International Space Station captured footage of a Russian missile attack on Kyiv, showing incoming ballistic trajectories and air defence activity over the Ukrainian capital and surrounding areas on Boxing Day night. The footage, published by Riccardo Rossi of the AstronautiCAST YouTube channel, is a compilation filmed by an onboard ISS camera during the night of 26–27 December. According to Rossi, the time-lapse shows flashes that are unrelated to meteor activity. Thus appear to show the flight paths of ballistic missiles alongside visible interceptions by Ukrainian air defences over Kyiv and the wider region. Explosions seen are consistent with missile strikes in and around the city that night. That night, Ukrainian officials said Russia launched ten ballistic missiles, including Iskander-M and Kinzhal systems, along with 30 cruise missiles during the overnight assault. The cruise missiles were identified as Kh-101, Iskander-K and Kh-22 types. The recording, released the day before the fourth anniversary of the war on 24 February 2026, offers a rare orbital view of Russia’s continuing missile campaign against Ukraine’s capital and its energy infrastructure. Kyiv and energy facilities in the region have been repeatedly targeted in large-scale strikes involving a combination of ballistic and cruise missiles since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. Since late autumn, Russian forces have increasingly combined missiles with drones in coordinated waves, in what Ukrainian officials say is an effort to overwhelm air defences and disrupt electricity and heating supplies during the winter months. The 27 December attack was described by Ukrainian authorities as one of the largest winter assaults on Kyiv so far.
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PersonInImage: ISS footage above Ukraine on the night of 26 December.