At Least Thirteen Killed as Russian Missiles Once Again Rain Down on Kyiv

Editor’s note: this is a developing story.

Russia launched a massive missile attack on Kyiv overnight, causing fires, damaging residential and non-residential buildings, and leaving people trapped inside a high-rise in the city’s Podilskyi district, Ukrainian officials reported on July 6.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said emergency services were responding to several locations across the capital after debris fell in multiple districts.

As of 5:15 am, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, reported that the Russian airstrike on Kyiv killed five civilians.

UPD: The death toll from Russia's strike on Kyiv has risen to 13. A total of 56 people were injured, including seven children, according to State Emergency Service.

Klitschko stated that the number of people injured in Kyiv has risen to seven, with two of them hospitalized. Rescuers evacuated 15 people from the building in the Podilskyi district where a partial collapse occurred.

Three women and six children were brought down from the upper floors, he said.

Apartments on both sides of the building were destroyed. Search operations for possible victims are ongoing.

Debris also fell on the territory of a garage cooperative.

Klitschko later said that, according to preliminary information, debris had fallen on another residential building in the Podilskyi district. Multiple cars are burning at the site of the attack.

He added that debris caused a fire in an apartment building in the Darnytskyi district.

The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration later reported that apartment buildings were damaged at three separate locations in the Darnytskyi district.

“These are residential buildings. Places where people were sleeping, living their ordinary lives,” Tkachenko said.

Tkachenko also reported debris falling in the Holosiivskyi district.

Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, said one person was killed in the Bucha district as a result of another massive Russian attack.

“My sincere condolences to the family and loved ones,” Kalashnyk said.

Another 10 residents of Kyiv region were injured. Six people with shrapnel wounds and limb fractures were hospitalized at a local hospital, where they are receiving all necessary medical assistance.

The consequences of the attack were recorded in the Bucha, Vyshhorod, and Brovary districts.

Private homes, businesses, and other civilian infrastructure sites were damaged. Emergency services are working at the affected locations, and cleanup operations are ongoing.

Air defense units intercepted or suppressed 363 aerial targets during Russia's overnight attack on Kyiv and other regions. The total included 326 attack drones, 31 Kh-101 cruise missiles, and six Kalibr cruise missiles, as reported by Ukraine's Air Force.

At the same time, according to independent analysts, Ukraine's air defenses did not intercept a single Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile or Zircon hypersonic cruise missile during the overnight attack on the capital.

UPD2: As of 5:15 PM, the death toll from the Russian attack across Ukraine has risen to 22, with 87 others injured.

In Kyiv, officials confirmed 15 fatalities and 58 injuries. In the Kyiv region, 7 people were killed and 29 injured. The wounded include seven children, four rescue workers, and one police officer.

Search and rescue operations are ongoing, and casualty figures are expected to rise.

Previously, a Russian guided aerial bomb strike heavily damaged a residential building in Sumy, killing four people and injuring more than 10 others.

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