Russian missiles and drones strike Kyiv as attacks kill at least seven civilians across Ukraine
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The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under ballistic missile attack from Russian forces early on Sunday, while other regions suffered bombardments later during the day that killed at least seven civilians and injured dozens more. Russia, for its part, said four people were killed by a Ukrainian drone strike in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Horlivka.
Ukraine's Air Force reported that Russian forces launched seven ballistic missiles and 136 drones at Ukraine overnight. In Kyiv, explosions rocked the city as air raid sirens blared. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one blaze had broken out on the seventh and eighth floors of a multi-storey apartment block in a central district after the overnight missile attack. Three people were wounded in the capital, and unofficial social media channels showed footage of fires burning.
In the eastern city of Kharkiv, one person was killed and 12 others required medical attention after a daytime drone attack. Meanwhile, a glide bomb attack killed one person and wounded six in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, which has been under heavy bombardment in recent months.
In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, two people were killed and four others were injured in Russian attacks over the past day. Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said Russia attacked the region with drones, artillery, and guided aerial bombs. A 74-year-old woman was killed inside a car that was struck by an FPV drone, and another drone hit a local supermarket and a residential building in a neighboring settlement, killing a 35-year-old woman.
In Kharkiv Oblast, seven people, including a child, were injured in Russian attacks over the past day, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov. In Kherson Oblast, two people were killed and 24 others were injured in Russian attacks targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian attacks killed one person and injured 12 others, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov. Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 1,029 strikes on 50 settlements across the Oblast.
Russian-installed authorities in Horlivka, a city in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Donetsk region, said four civilians had been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike, Russia's TASS news agency reported. On Saturday, Russian-installed authorities accused Ukraine of deliberately attacking civilians after 12 people were killed in a drone attack on a holiday camp in a Russian-held part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region.
Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war launched by Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Thousands of civilians have died, most of them Ukrainians killed in Russian attacks.
Ukrainian forces also struck a number of important Russian military and military-economic targets on the night of 25-26 July, including a Chornomornaftohaz oil and gas company facility in Crimea, a relay station for controlling strike UAVs near Chornomorske, and a bridge in the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast.
In the Lyman sector, Ukrainian drones struck a Russian Murom-M surveillance complex. Additionally, Ukrainian drones targeted a Russian oil refinery in Tyumen, sparking a fire, according to local authorities.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had warned on Friday that Russian attacks were likely over the next 48 hours. On Sunday, Zelenskiy said that Russian forces used almost 1,700 drones, more than 1,630 aerial bombs, and 95 missiles of various types against Ukraine over the past week, more than half of which were ballistic.
In Sumy Oblast, a 53-year-old man was killed and eight people were wounded following Russian attacks. In Kryvyi Rih, a fire broke out at an Epitsentr DIY store following a Russian strike.
The attacks come as Kazakhstan's President Qasym-Jomart Toqayev reportedly told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that he should end his war in Ukraine. "It is a shame, young people are dying... All this has to be stopped," Toqayev said, per AFP.
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