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Record Drone and Missile Barrage Pounds Kyiv, Killing Six

Despite downing most incoming drones and missiles, Kyiv officials warn that air-defense gaps exposed in the assault require rapid bolstering.

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Women react outside a destroyed apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A Ukrainian artilleryman carries a shell as he prepares to fire a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops near the city of Kostiantynivka, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on July 5.
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Overview

  • Russia launched more than 300 Shahed and decoy drones alongside eight cruise missiles overnight, and Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 288 drones and three missiles though five missiles and 21 drones struck targets in Kyiv.
  • At least six civilians, including a six-year-old boy, were killed and over fifty others were wounded as parts of a nine-story residential block collapsed and more than 100 sites—homes, schools and hospitals—were damaged in the Solomianskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts.
  • Following a July 29 strike on a Chernihiv military training facility that killed three soldiers and injured 18, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched an internal investigation into command failures at training grounds.
  • On the eastern front, Ukrainian troops reported 172 engagements and repelled 57 Russian assaults in the Pokrovsk sector, even as Moscow claims it has captured the strategic hilltop town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk.
  • President Zelensky and city leaders are pressing international partners to accelerate delivery of advanced air-defense systems to address the vulnerabilities laid bare by the latest assault.