A Russian ballistic missile attack killed 2 people and injured at least 5 others, including a 16-year-old boy, in Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday.
Air-raid sirens sounded across the capital shortly before 1 a.m. after Ukraine’s Air Force warned of a ballistic missile threat. The Air Force later reported four missiles heading toward Kyiv as explosions were heard across the city.
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The immediate ballistic threat was lifted at 1:29 a.m., while emergency crews continued responding to fires and damage in the Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko initially reported that two people had been killed and six residents injured, including the teenager. Three of the wounded were hospitalized, according to the mayor.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service later reported two deaths and five injuries, including one child, as rescue operations continued.
In the Darnytskyi district, a fire broke out in an administrative and warehouse building before spreading to nearby parked trucks and another warehouse. Two people were killed at the site, while two others were injured, including the child.
Klitschko had earlier reported that missile debris fell on non-residential property in the district. A separate strike was later recorded at another non-residential building.
In the Sviatoshynskyi district, a strike hit warehouse facilities and ignited a fire in a single-story building. Three people were injured there, according to emergency officials.
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Firefighters and rescue teams continued working at the affected locations, while authorities said information on casualties and damage was still being clarified.
The deadly overnight strike on Kyiv followed a devastating day of Russian bombardment across Ukraine, in which Moscow’s forces killed 13 people and wounded about 50 others, according to regional authorities. Guided bombs, missiles and drones struck industrial, medical, port and other civilian infrastructure in Odesa and Sumy, while deaths were also reported in the Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Russia has sharply intensified its long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities in recent months, driving civilian casualties to their highest monthly level in more than four years. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine recorded at least 293 civilians killed and 1,990 injured in June 2026 – the highest combined monthly toll since April 2022. Long-range missiles and drones caused 45% of those casualties, with most occurring far from the front line in urban centers such as Kyiv and Dnipro.
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