Kyiv woke to fires, falling debris, and a partially collapsed high-rise after a Russian ballistic missile attack left residents trapped between the seventh and ninth floors of a residential building.
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.
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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 11, while the number of people injured has reached 60, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
BREAKING: First videos from the scene of the destroyed buildingin Kyiv. There are people under the rubble pic.twitter.com/v0QKahTSkZ
— World Source News (@Worldsource24) July 5, 2026
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.
A kindergarten and garages hit by a Russian strike on July 7, 2026. Kyiv, Podilskyi district. (Source: UNITED24 Media/Illia Kabachynskyi)
A kindergarten and garages hit by a Russian strike on July 7, 2026. Kyiv, Podilskyi district. (Source: UNITED24 Media/Illia Kabachynskyi)
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.
Shahed strike on a residential building in central Kyiv pic.twitter.com/Hvq0ybqdge
— EMPR.media (@EuromaidanPR) July 6, 2026
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.
Kyiv after repeated impacts from Russian Iskander ballistic missiles. https://t.co/O0jwvdJpWU pic.twitter.com/FTxj1ocV9Q
— OSINTWarfare (@OSINTWarfare) July 5, 2026
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.
The moment when a Russian Shahed/Geran-type strike drone impacted a multi-storey residential building of the “Slavutych” residential complex in Kyiv tonight.
The OWA-UAV hit the building at the upper floors.
Another case of a Russian strike on residential building in the… pic.twitter.com/tAFk2DfjAh
— Status-6 (War & Military News) (@Archer83Able) July 6, 2026
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.
Aftermath of a reported Russian Shahed drone strike on a residential high-rise in Kyiv, July 6, 2026. (Photo: open source)
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.
In Kyiv, 20 ballistic missiles and “Zircon” were previously used pic.twitter.com/jPCzg3o7bJ
— big ben (@alternative_war) July 5, 2026
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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