{"id":13285,"date":"2026-07-06T02:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/13285\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T02:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:12:06","slug":"russian-missile-and-drone-attack-on-ukraines-capital-kills-at-least-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/13285\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine&#8217;s capital kills at least 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia launched waves of missiles and drones targeting Kyiv overnight into Monday that killed at least three people, authorities said, hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-crimea-trump-zelenskyy-putin-7d85005373e69a417a9a74899c053d5c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Ukraine\u2019s president;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ukraine\u2019s president&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ukraine\u2019s president<\/a> warned that another large-scale attack was imminent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A residential building in the Podilskyi district partially collapsed, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv&#8217;s City Military Administration in a post on Telegram. In the Darnytsia district, several multistory buildings were damaged and people were believed to be trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThese are residential buildings. Places where people slept and lived their ordinary lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The attack, which was still underway early Monday morning, involved waves of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones. Explosions echoed across the city as civilians sought shelter in metro stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned hours earlier of another large-scale Russian attack on the city. Monday&#8217;s attack comes days after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-missile-drone-attack-384d5b6bcdfc6e7d8c18f25130332ef7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:a combined Russian attack;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a combined Russian attack&quot;}\" class=\"link \">a combined Russian attack<\/a> killed at least 31 people in Kyiv last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskyy renewed calls for Western partners to bolster Ukraine\u2019s air defenses, particularly by supplying more Patriot missiles, saying that failing to replenish them <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-putin-attacks-fuel-refineries-a2f9eb36ad610ec8070b462244083f7b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:only emboldens Russia;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;only emboldens Russia&quot;}\" class=\"link \">only emboldens Russia<\/a> to prolong its four-year war, in a post on Telegram late Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia launched waves of missiles and drones targeting Kyiv overnight into Monday that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[219,158,25,240,325,26],"class_list":["post-13285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-city-military-administration","tag-kyiv","tag-russia","tag-russian-attack","tag-tymur-tkachenko","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}