{"id":4688,"date":"2026-07-25T01:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/4688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:34:11","slug":"russian-missile-strike-kills-10-at-ukrainian-defence-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/4688\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian missile strike kills 10 at Ukrainian defence event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

A Russian ballistic missile strike on Friday in Ukraine\u2019s Kyiv region killed 10 people and injured close to 100 at the site of a defence industry event that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said should never have taken place.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Emergency Services said its crews had completed rescue operations at the site north of the capital.<\/p>\n

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Communal workers clean a road at a site of a Russian air strike, amid Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, in the frontline city of Sloviansk, Ukraine, on 24th July, 2026. PICTURE: Iryna Rybakova\/Press Service of the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces\/Handout via Reuters<\/p>\n

Pictures posted online by the Emergency Services showed teams sifting through piles of rubble at the site, adjacent to several houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, the cause of this attack is Russian missiles, nothing but Russian terror,\u201d Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, we have said a thousand times that under these wartime conditions, with such an enemy, it is absolutely unacceptable to hold any weapons exhibitions with large crowds of people, especially near residential buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event, hosted by a drone manufacturers\u2019 association, was taking place in an area a short drive from the outskirts of the capital.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the military\u2019s general staff said the event took place at a site not under its jurisdiction, but added that any such event required \u201cmaximum security measures\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The acting Governor of Kyiv region, Ruslan Oliynyk, said that a day of mourning would be observed on Saturday in the region.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry said that a missile strike hit a site where representatives of Ukraine\u2019s defence industry were present.<\/p>\n

It said it was not an organiser of the event.<\/p>\n

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

Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, said that a criminal case had been opened on possible failure to perform official duties during the organisation and conduct of the event.<\/p>\n

In eastern Ukraine, a Russian aerial bomb attack killed five people and injured nine in the city of Sloviansk, Regional Governor Vadym Filashkin said on Friday.<\/p>\n

He later said that a new Russian strike on the city in the evening injured 16 people and damaged residential buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters A Russian ballistic missile strike on Friday in Ukraine\u2019s Kyiv region killed 10 people and injured close…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,2701,1177,273,26,2702,2703],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry","tag-drone-manufacturers-association","tag-kyiv","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-conflict","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}