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Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia launched a large-scale onslaught connected Ukraine's superior overnight into Thursday that killed astatine slightest 13 radical and injured scores, authorities said. Loud explosions shook Kyiv for hours.
The onslaught with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones damaged buildings and civilian infrastructure crossed the city.
Many residents took structure astatine metro stations aft Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and different officials issued the archetypal warnings of the attack.
It killed 13 radical successful Kyiv and injured 86 more, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Damage was recorded successful 30 locations crossed the city, chiefly residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, said Tymur Tkachenko, caput of the Kyiv City Military Administration.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 20 residential buildings were damaged. The Emergency Service said it deployed astir 500 unit and 100 units of specialized vehicles, including a helicopter, to woody with the attack's aftermath.
Smoke rises during a Russian onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior Kyiv connected July 2, 2026, amid the Russian penetration successful Ukraine.
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But Russia's Defense Ministry said the onslaught deed what it called cardinal subject plants successful Kyiv, according to the Reuters quality service.
Zelenskyy Zelensky asked Washington for a licence to marque Patriot missiles successful the aftermath of the attack, French quality bureau AFP reported.
And Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called connected its allies to fortify the country's aerial defenses pursuing what helium described arsenic a "night of horror" successful Kyiv, urging partners not to hold decisions connected supplying aerial defence systems and missiles. Writing connected X, Sybiha said the decease toll aft the onslaught whitethorn emergence arsenic the rescue teams continued their work.
Russia has intensified its attacks connected Kyiv successful caller weeks, adjacent arsenic Ukraine's ain long-range drone run against Russian subject sites and vigor facilities has caused substance shortages and disrupted proviso lines wrong Russia.
Sybiha rejected immoderate attempts to warrant Russian strikes arsenic retaliation for Ukraine's long-range attacks, saying Ukraine was exercising its close to self-defense nether Article 51 of the U.N. Charter portion Russia remained the aggressor.
Rescuers extinguish a occurrence and enactment successful a damaged residential gathering pursuing a onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior of Kyiv connected July 2, 2026, amid the Russian penetration of Ukraine.
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Officials detail attack's harm
Klitschko urged residents of the superior to stay successful shelters owed to the ongoing "furious force attack."
He said a paramedic successful highly captious information was among the injured successful the Shevchenkivskyi district. Ukraine's Emergency Service said a edifice and 2 five-story residential buildings were damaged successful the area.
In the Desnianskyi district, radical were trapped wrong a damaged nine-story residential gathering and rescuers headed to the scene, Klitschko said.
In the Holosiivskyi district, a occurrence broke retired connected the extortion of a 16-story building, according to the Emergency Service.
In the Sviatoshynskyi district, occurrence broke retired successful 2 backstage residencies, the Emergency Service said. Debris trapped radical successful 1 of them, according to the mayor. In the Darnytskyi district, six levels of a nine-story gathering collapsed aft a Russian onslaught and different five-story residential gathering was damaged, Klitschko said. The Emergency Service said a 16-story gathering and backstage residencies were damaged successful the area.
Tkachenko said the onslaught partially destroyed a residential gathering successful the Desnianskyi district, sparked fires adjacent residential buildings astatine 2 locations successful the Pecherskyi district, and ignited a occurrence adjacent an administrative gathering successful the Solomianskyi district. He said authorities were besides signaling harm successful the Obolonskyi and Podilskyi districts. The caput of the Kyiv Regional Administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, said harm occurred successful 5 determination districts. Three radical sustained injuries successful Bucha district, helium said.
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