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Russia launches ballistic missiles and drones at Kyiv as NATO summit begins: residential buildings hit
Russia launches overnight missile and drone barrage on Kyiv: residential buildings hit, casualties reported
Russia launched a fresh barrage of ballistic missiles and drones at Kyiv on Monday morning, killing at least 22 people and injuring dozens more, just hours before the start of a NATO summit in Turkey. The overnight assault, the second in four days, struck residential buildings in multiple districts of the Ukrainian capital, including the Podilskyi, Obolonskyi, Holosiivskyi and Darnytskyi areas, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration. A 21-storey apartment block in Podilskyi was partially destroyed between the third and fourth floors, trapping residents on upper floors while rescuers worked to evacuate them. In the Darnytskyi district, debris struck a 25-storey building at the fourth-floor level, and a fire broke out on the upper floors of a 30-storey residential building, prompting evacuations. At least 15 people were killed in Kyiv and eight others in the surrounding region, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said, with search and rescue operations continuing as of late afternoon. “Our apartment is on the seventh floor. The emergency services got us out because the door was jammed,” said 45-year-old Lesia Yuskova, whose building in Podilskyi was hit. “One person is still missing. All the walls have shifted. Maybe we'll be able to take at least something from the apartment.”
The strikes came as Ukraine simultaneously escalated its own long-range drone campaign deep inside Russia, hitting critical infrastructure targets hundreds of kilometres from the front line. Ukrainian Special Operations Forces confirmed a drone strike on the Omsk Oil Refinery in western Siberia, Russia’s largest, located more than 2,500km from the Ukrainian border. The attack damaged the refinery’s primary oil refining unit, the facility’s most vital component, and triggered a large fire, according to Ukraine’s General Staff. The Omsk refinery, owned by Gazprom Neft, has a design capacity of around 22 million tonnes of crude oil per year and produces gasoline, diesel and aviation kerosene used by the Russian military. Before Monday, it was one of only two of Russia’s ten largest refineries that had not been targeted by Ukrainian drones; the other is the Angarsk Petrochemical Company in the Irkutsk region.
Ukraine also carried out a massive drone assault on Russian-occupied Crimea, blacking out the entire peninsula and causing partial outages in parts of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. The strikes, involving between 450 and 650 drones, targeted power substations, military bases and port infrastructure, leaving 2.5 million people without electricity in Crimea and disrupting supply to another 3-3.5 million users in occupied southern Ukraine. Russian authorities claimed to have shot down 519 Ukrainian drones across 20 regions and Crimea, a wartime record second only to the 660 drones reportedly downed on 25-26 June.
Kyiv has repeatedly warned that a shortage of Patriot air defence interceptors is severely hampering its ability to protect civilians from ballistic missiles. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday’s Russian attack on Kyiv involved 68 missiles and 351 strike drones, yet Ukraine failed to intercept a single ballistic projectile. “Every resident of Kyiv knows someone affected by this attack,” Zelensky said. “Russia understands only strength. If we have strong air defence, Russia will attack less.” The strikes on Monday underscore the widening asymmetry in air defence capabilities, with Ukraine struggling to replace depleted stocks of Patriot missiles while Russia continues to target civilian infrastructure with near impunity.
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