Russian strikes across Ukraine, from east to west, kill at least 8 and
wound dozens
[July 30, 2026]
By HANNA ARHIROVA
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks across Ukraine overnight into
Thursday killed at least eight people and wounded dozens of others,
officials said, with the heaviest casualties and aftermath reported in
the eastern Dnipropetrovsk and western Lviv regions.
The attacks were the latest in a series of large-scale Russian strikes
on Ukrainian cities that Russia has intensified over the summer, now
occurring on a nearly weekly basis.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv and the surrounding
region, along with the Dnipro, Lviv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy,
Vinnytsia, Cherkasy and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, were attacked
overnight, with dozens of homes, businesses and infrastructure
facilities destroyed or damaged. He said Russia used more than 70
missiles in the strike, a significant number of them ballistic, along
with more than 280 attack drones, of which more than 260 were
intercepted.
“Given the critical shortage of air defense missiles from our partners,
our warriors are accomplishing truly incredible things, demonstrating a
very high level of professionalism,” he said. “This Russian terror once
again proves that protection against the Russian missile threat is the
most important task when it comes to saving the lives of our people.”
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian forces carried out a mass attack
that killed six people and wounded 10 and damaged or destroyed civilian
infrastructure, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military
administration.
Children were among the dead, he said on Telegram — a 6-year-old girl
and boys aged 11 and 17 in the Kryvyi Rih area.
Zelenskyy specified in his post on X that the parents of the kids were
killed as well in the same attack, but two more children were pulled
alive from under the rubble.
“It was an ordinary home, blown into smithereens by a ballistic
missile... ” he said. Ukrainian leader said untimely assistance and
delays in the delivery of anti-ballistic missiles lead to the kind of
destruction and casualties seen in the attack, adding that it is
important to support the protection of life.
In the Poltava region, next to Dnipropetrovsk region in the west, a
drone strike hit warehouses at a private enterprise, killing one person,
said regional head Vitalii Diakivnych. He said a delivery hub also was
attacked, sparking a fire at warehouses that was quickly extinguished by
State Emergency Service units, with no injuries reported there.
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Rescuers search through the rubble of a residential building
following air attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP
Photo/Mykola Tys)
In Lviv, the number of people injured in a Russian missile attack
rose to 30 as a rescue operation continued, said Maksym Kozytskyi,
head of the Lviv regional military administration.
The city was struck at about 4:45 a.m., with the worst damage to two
residential buildings, Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said. More than 20
residential buildings were damaged, along with a school and two
kindergartens, he said, adding that children were among those
injured, including one who was hospitalized.
In Kyiv, Russian forces struck the capital with ballistic missiles,
killing a 31-year-old man and wounding two others, the National
Police press service said. Residential buildings, a market, a garage
cooperative, storage facilities and vehicles were damaged in the
city, police said.
In the Kyiv region, five people were wounded in the Brovary
district, including a minor and two women, acting regional
administration head Ruslan Oliinyk said on Facebook.
In Moscow, the Defense Ministry said the Russian armed forces
overnight launched a massive strike on air bases, arms factories and
military telecommunications and logistics facilities in Kyiv, Lviv
and in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Vinnytsia and
Dnipropetrovsk regions.
It said the military also hit a ship in the Pivdennyi port and two
ships east and south of Odesa.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed
258 Ukrainian drones overnight. Penza Gov. Oleg Melnichenko said a
depot belonging to Wildberries online retailer was set ablaze. He
said one person was injured and 200 workers were evacuated.
Wildberries also reported that its warehouse in Sarapul in the
region of Udmurtia was struck by a Ukrainian drone and set ablaze.
It said the workers had been safely evacuated. The attacks were the
latest in a series of Ukrainian strikes that hit depots belonging to
Wildberries, the country’s largest online retailer, causing massive
damage.
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