{"id":4594,"date":"2026-07-24T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/4594\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:39:13","slug":"russian-missile-strike-kills-10-at-ukraine-defence-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/4594\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Missile Strike Kills 10 at Ukraine Defence Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A Russian ballistic \u2060missile \u2060strike on Friday \u2060in Ukraine&#8217;s Kyiv region killed 10 people \u200band injured close to 100 others at a site \u200cwhere a defence industry \u200cevent was being held, Ukrainian officials and \u2060industry representatives \u2060said.<\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who did not name exact target, \u200bsaid that efforts to determine what happened were underway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A rescue operation is currently underway in the Kyiv region \u200bfollowing a Russian missile strike,&#8221; Zelenskiy said on \u2060Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Acting governor \u2060of Kyiv region Ruslan \u2060Oliynyk \u200bsaid that according to preliminary information, a ballistic missile \u200bstrike hit a \u2060private training ground where events were taking place.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry said that a missile strike hit a site where representatives of \u2060the Ukraine&#8217;s defence industry were present.<\/p>\n<p>It said it was not \u2060an organiser of the event. Information regarding the exact whereabouts of the participants was not made public, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Valerii Borovyk, founder of Ukrainian drone company First Contact, told Ukrainian media that a missile struck a training ground where a defence industry exhibition was being held.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s prosecutor \u2060general, Ruslan Kravchenko, said that a criminal case had been opened on possible improper performance of official duties during the organisation and conduct of \u200bthe event.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Anna PruchnickaEditing by Gareth \u200bJones and Toby Chopra)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See \u2013 June 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784896753_367_june-26-pyss-u01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman's hand presses against a plastic sheet used to replace the shattered glass of a balcony door damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hassan Ammar)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A Russian ballistic \u2060missile \u2060strike on Friday \u2060in Ukraine&#8217;s Kyiv region killed 10 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1077,14,93,1071,273,26,224],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-collections-world","tag-defence-industry","tag-europe","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}