{"id":699667,"date":"2026-07-19T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699667\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:21:09","slug":"dozens-of-russian-missiles-pound-kyiv-in-major-attack-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699667\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Russian missiles pound Kyiv in major attack | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia has carried out one of its biggest ever ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, launching a five-hour raid that left at least one person dead and seven injured, with fires and damage across the city.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials said the capital was hit with about 40 Iskander-M and hypersonic Zircon missiles. Residents heard an air raid siren sound at 1.30am. There was the sound of air defences followed minutes later by a series of booms and explosions.<\/p>\n

Houses in Kyiv\u2019s historic centre shook, and car alarms blared, as dozens of missiles arrived in less than an hour. There was a second air raid siren at 6.30am, with more impacts reported.<\/p>\n

A three-storey building caught fire in the central Shevchenkivsky district. Rescuers dug out several people trapped inside and recovered a body. Four other areas were hit, with fires reported at office and residential buildings and a dormitory.<\/p>\n

Residents sheltering inside Lukyanivska metro station posted footage after the ceiling in the ground-floor vestibule collapsed because of a massive blast wave. The station is temporarily closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to preliminary information, one person was, sadly, killed as a result of the attack,\u201d the city military administration said on Telegram. Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said seven people were wounded.<\/p>\n

Russia has been firing drones and missiles at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities almost daily since it launched its full-scale 2022 invasion. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded with western allies to help Ukraine<\/a> bolster its air defences and to supply it with advanced US-made Patriot interceptors capable of shooting down ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s own stocks of interceptors appear to have dwindled. The attacks come amid big anti-government protests in Kyiv<\/a> following Zelenskyy\u2019s decision to sack the country\u2019s popular and modernising defence minister Mykhailo Federov. Demonstrators want Federov reinstated and the Soviet-style commander in chief, Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, sacked instead.<\/p>\n

\"WhyWhy Ukrainians are protesting against Zelenskyy\u2019s dismissal of defence minister \u2013\u00a0video<\/p>\n

There have also been attacks on Russia. On Saturday, Ukraine sent attack drones to destroy e-commerce warehouses in the Moscow and Tambov regions, killing eight people and causing major fires.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Saturday Russian strikes killed five people and wounded almost 20 in several regions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response to Russian strikes on our civilian infrastructure and on our cities and communities, two major logistics facilities were hit \u2013 in the Moscow and Tambov regions,\u201d Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian president alleged the centres were used \u201cto supply sanctioned components<\/a> for drone production and navigation equipment\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia has carried out one of its biggest ever ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, launching a five-hour raid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-699667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}