Seventeen people were killed and 44 injured in overnight strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding Kyiv region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports.
The attack involved 24 ballistic missiles, four Tsirkon and Oniks missiles, and 115 drones, many of them jet-powered, Zelenskyy said in a statement on Telegram.
Warehouses, infrastructure, and a railway station were among the targets, he added.
Zelenskyy called for increased supplies of ballistic missile interceptors to Ukraine, urging the Group of Seven and the EU to impose additional sanctions on Russian producers of ballistic missiles.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 475 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and the Black and Azov seas overnight.
In the Rostov region, more than 40 drones were reportedly destroyed over the Tarasovsky, Kamensky, Millerovsky, and Neklinovsky districts, according to Governor Yury Slyusar.
Falling debris caused a fire in dry grass in the Neklinovsky district, which was subsequently extinguished, Slyusar said.
In the Tula region, a fire broke out at a Wildberries sorting center after a drone fell, Governor Dmitry Milyaev said.
Two apartment buildings and two industrial facilities were also damaged. One person was reportedly injured.
In Tatarstan, falling drone debris caused a small fire at a civilian facility in the Zelenodolsk district, according to district head Mikhail Afanasyev.
The fire was quickly extinguished, and no injuries were reported.
The claims from both sides could not be independently verified.
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10:41
A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight on Aug. 5, Kyiv Independent reports.
In Kyiv Oblast, 14 people were killed and 27 others injured, the State Emergency Service (DSNS) reported as rescue operations were still underway.
Damage was reported in the Brovary, Bucha, and Fastiv districts, with warehouses and vehicles set ablaze in the Russian attack, according to DSNS.
Meanwhile, one person was killed, and 24 injured in the capital of Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported.
Among those injured in Kyiv, 15 have been hospitalized, four of whom are in critical condition, he added.
Damage had been recorded at more than seven locations across the city, including the Holosiivskyi, Obolonskyi, Desnianskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi districts, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration.
Earlier, Klitschko said two people had been rescued from beneath the rubble of a collapsed warehouse in the Holosiivskyi district. Search and rescue operations were ongoing, and additional people could still be trapped, he said.
In the Obolonskyi district, a fire broke out in a 20-story residential building after it was struck by a missile. Another residential building also caught fire, while fires were reported at two warehouse sites.
In the Desnianskyi district, a warehouse caught fire, and missile debris fell near a residential building, Klitschko said.
Authorities also reported a large fire in the Kyiv-Sviatoshynskyi district outside the capital. Emergency services were responding to the affected sites.
Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground first heard loud explosions shortly after 12:20 a.m. local time and said multiple ballistic missiles struck the city. Explosions continued to rock the capital for the next hour.
05:35
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Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on multiple areas of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, overnight into Aug. 5, local authorities said.
The strikes sparked fires in residential buildings and warehouse facilities across several districts of the city.
According to preliminary information, at least three people were hospitalized, one of whom is in critical condition.
Authorities also reported damage to warehouse and industrial facilities in the Bucha, Brovary and Fastiv districts of the Kyiv region. Civilians were reportedly injured in the attacks.
Emergency and rescue operations are ongoing.
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