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Record-Scale Drone and Missile Barrage Rocks Kyiv Overnight

Ukraine’s air defenses destroyed nearly 90 percent of incoming drones and missiles, illustrating Kyiv’s strengthened defenses after an overnight barrage that wounded dozens, prompting retaliatory strikes inside Russia.

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A police officer and a medical worker evacuate a resident from an apartment building damaged during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine July 3, 2025. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa region/Handout via REUTERS
An explosion of a drone lights up the sky over the city during a Russian drone and missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 4, 2025.
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Overview

  • Russia unleashed its largest aerial assault of the war with 539 drones and 11 missiles targeting Kyiv over eight hours of air raid alerts
  • At least 23 people were injured and fires damaged buildings, railway infrastructure and civilian facilities across six of the capital’s ten districts
  • Ukraine’s Air Force intercepted 478 of the incoming aerial weapons, using a combination of missile defenses and electronic jamming
  • Kyiv launched cross‐border drone strikes on Lipetsk, Sergiyev Posad and Rostov regions, causing civilian casualties, power outages and evacuations in Russia
  • Ukrainian authorities have opened war-crimes investigations into recent shelling in Kherson and Donetsk regions and deployed emergency crews to extinguish fires and clear debris