Russian overnight strikes injure at least 10 in Kyiv

Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv overnight Saturday, injuring at least 10 people, including a child, and setting off fires across several districts of the Ukrainian capital, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said explosions and fires were reported in the Solomianskyi, Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts. In Solomianskyi, a strike ignited a fire in a three-story office and warehouse building. In Dniprovskyi, another warehouse caught fire after being hit.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the wounded included an 11-year-old boy and that four people required hospitalization, Al Jazeera reported. “A transformer substation is on fire in the Darnytskyi district, and a three-storey office building is burning in the Solomianskyi district,” Klitschko wrote on Telegram.

The reported casualty toll varied slightly. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service put the number of injured at at least 10, while Al Jazeera reported that at least 11 civilians were wounded.

Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 10 missiles of various types, including six ballistic missiles, along with 121 drones overnight. It said Ukrainian air defenses shot down or electronically suppressed two missiles and 111 drones.

Al Jazeera, citing the Ukrainian Air Force, reported that Russia deployed six Iskander-M or S-400 ballistic missiles from the Bryansk region, along with six tactical cruise missiles and 121 drones. The outlet reported that defense units downed 111 drones and two cruise missiles, while all six ballistic targets penetrated the defenses.

The Air Force said direct hits were recorded at 11 locations from ballistic missiles, two guided air-to-surface missiles and seven attack drones. Debris from intercepted weapons fell at three additional locations.

Local news source Euromaidan Press reported, according to Al Jazeera, that the first detonations were heard in the city center at 3:38 a.m. local time, nearly two minutes before municipal air raid sirens were activated at 3:40 a.m.

Ukrainska Pravda reported that a railway locomotive was heavily damaged by a primary blast wave, while nearby commercial warehouses and a pharmacy suffered major structural damage, Al Jazeera said. The outlet also reported that emergency crews used specialized fire trains outside the city to contain a 4,000-square-meter blaze at a regional infrastructure facility.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces targeted drone production facilities in Kyiv, as well as the ports of Izmail and Chornomorsk in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region.

The ministry also said Russian air defenses destroyed 178 Ukrainian drones overnight over eight Russian regions, the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Black and Azov seas.

Al Jazeera reported that recent attacks across Kyiv and its outlying metropolitan area have killed more than 60 people since the beginning of July, citing data compiled by local authorities. The Ukrainian Air Force also said Russia’s nationwide missile and drone campaign struck at least 11 infrastructure sites across the country.