Ukraine only able to intercept one of 27 Russian missiles aimed at Kyiv

US has not yet fulfilled pledge of giving the country capability to make its own Patriot missiles

Nine people have been killed and more than 30 others were injured after Russia launched another large scale ballistic missile attack on the capital Kyiv - the second major strike in just three days.

At least 9 people have been killed and dozens injured in Russian missile strikes on Kyiv.

Russia launched ballistic missiles and attack drones against Ukraine’s capital overnight, killing at least nine people, while Kyiv’s forces struck oil facilities deep inside Russia territory.Local authorities confirmed a fire at an industrial site in Ufa in the Bashkortostan Republic, without specifying what had been d

The Kremlin’s barrage overnight into Saturday is said to have wounded dozens of people, with Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky calling for ballistic missile interceptors

Massive Russian missile attack lays bare Ukraine’s air defense shortages  CNN

At least nine people are dead and many more injured in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Russia launched a fresh wave of missile and drone strikes across Ukraine. These attacks killed at least nine people and injured more than thirty others. Kyiv and surrounding regions were targeted in the second major aerial assault in two days. Ukrainian authorities reported 27 ballistic missiles were fired, with onl

Russian attacks on Kyiv and its suburbs killed 10 people early Saturday, as Ukrainian drones sank a huge Russian container ship in the Black Sea.

Ukraine downed only one of 27 Russian ballistic missiles during the attack as the country lacks interceptors for the US Patriot systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

A massive Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv damaged the Lithuanian embassy and a medical transport depot, destroying five ambulances and significantly damaging 20 others on Saturday morning. Ukrainian officials confirmed the strike caused major disruptions to the city’s medical fleet. The broader attack killed n

Lithuanian embassy in Kyiv damaged in Russian missile attack  Reuters

Aug 1 - Lithuania's embassy in Kyiv was damaged on Saturday when two missiles landed nearby during a Russian attack, the Lithuanian foreign ministry said.

'And, as usual, the Russians hit ordinary residential buildings.'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces launched 35 missiles, including 27 ballistic missiles, and 185 attack drones at Ukraine overnight.

The assault came just a week after a similar attack in Ukraine killed nine people, including six members of one family

It was the second deadly barrage to hit the Ukrainian capital in two days, as Moscow escalates its attacks in an apparent effort to exploit Ukraine’s dwindling supply of interceptors.

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Photos show Russian missile and drone attack on Ukrainian capital Kyiv  AP News

The attack comes as Russia escalates deadly ballistic missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital.

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital killed at least four people and wounded more than a dozen others, local officials said on Saturday, after Kyiv’s mayor warned of a ballistic missile attack. It comes after the United Nations found June was the deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine since April 2022. Russia has ste

Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital killed at least four people and wounded more than a dozen others, local officials said Saturday, after Kyiv's mayor warned of a ballistic missile attack.

Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least three people have died and 15 were injured in the ballistic missile attack on the Ukrainian capital. Several people were trapped in a partially collapsed apartment building.

Ukraine war latest: Zelensky cites new Ukrainian, Russian casualty figures  The Kyiv Independent

[Dabanga] Bara / El Jamama -- At least 24 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in an air strike on the village of Sharshar west of Bara in North Kordofan on Wednesday, according to local witnesses and rights groups. Hours later, a separate paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on El Jamama l

In our news wrap Thursday, an overnight barrage of Russian drones and missiles killed at least 10 people in Ukraine, the Georgia father whose teenage son killed four people in a 2024 school shooting was sentenced to 15 years in prison and two of soccer's regional governing bodies threatened to boycott FIFA competitions

A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least 10 civilians, including children. Ukraine's air force said it had managed to intercept 55 missiles and 265 drones launched by Moscow -- but it has struggled to intercept the advanced ballistic missiles that Russia is increasingly dep

Strike on Terminal Autonomy plant appears to be first time in the war that Moscow has targeted a US company A drone factory in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile on Friday was owned by a US corporation registered in Delaware, in what appears to be the first time Moscow has targeted a US company in the confli

A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight killed at least 10 civilians, including children, and injured more than 50 others, officials said Thursday, and NATO scrambled its warplanes after one of the missiles crossed the country’s western border into Poland.

Donald Tusk said the missile posed no direct threat and would have been intercepted had it continued flying, as NATO pledged to defend allied territory.

A Russian missile landed in Polish territory during a large-scale Russian strike on Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, though no one was injured. On Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, Russia launched an estimated total of 83 missiles of various types at targets across Ukraine, concentrating on Kyi

A Russian cruise missile struck eastern Poland early Thursday after violating the country’s airspace during a massive Russian missile barrage against Ukraine, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The Russian-made Kh-101 cruise missile crashed into an undeveloped field near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, abo

Overnight Russian strikes killed at least eight people, including children, and prompted scruity of reports that a Russian missile briefly entered polish airspace

The blitz expanded Russia’s almost daily bombardment of Ukrainian cities as Moscow apparently looked to exploit Kyiv’s critical shortage of Western-supplied anti-ballistic missile defences.

Ukraine Says Russian Missile Entered Polish Airspace Overnight  HuffPost