{"id":18539,"date":"2026-07-19T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/18539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:37:09","slug":"russia-unleashes-major-ballistic-missile-attacks-ukraine-says-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/18539\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia unleashes major ballistic missile attacks, Ukraine says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia unleashes one of the biggest ballistic missile attacks of the Ukraine war, Kyiv says<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784457429_936_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>KYIV \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Russia launched one of the largest ballistic missile attacks of its more than four-year-old war against Ukraine overnight into Sunday, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Ukraine\u2019s air force said Moscow had launched \u201ca massive combined strike against Ukraine using attack UAVs and various types of air- and ground-launched missiles,\u201d and that the main target was the capital Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Video above from July 11: &#8216;Five minutes later, a second one followed&#8217;: People in Kyiv recount overnight Russian strikes<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">CNN journalists in the city reported hearing explosions throughout the night. On Sunday morning there was a strong smell of smoke in the city, one said, and an air raid alert was still in place.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">\u201cThe enemy launched more than 40 missiles of various types \u2013 most of them against the capital \u2013 and 120 attack drones,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Andriy Sybiha, acting minister of foreign affairs, said Russia had launched \u201caround four dozen\u201d missiles traveling on a ballistic trajectory, describing it as the \u201clargest number of ballistic missiles since the start of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Air defenses had \u201cshot down or neutralized 126 targets, including 18 missiles and 108 unmanned aerial vehicles,\u201d the air force said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Images from Kyiv showed a huge crater gouged out of the ground, and the scorched facades of buildings.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Strikes were reported in five districts of the capital, according to the state emergency services. One person had been killed and 16 wounded in the city, they said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">\u201cProtection against ballistic missiles is our constant and top priority right now,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cInterceptors are needed every day, and I am grateful to everyone who takes our agreements seriously and ensures the delivery of anti-ballistic capabilities.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia unleashes one of the biggest ballistic missile attacks of the Ukraine war, Kyiv says KYIV \u2014 Russia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[220,2684,1207,7295,7297,291,1206,1208,1202,25,7296,240,7298,26,1623,319,1205,1201],"class_list":["post-18539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ballistic-missiles","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-email-weather-search","tag-ldnd","tag-missile-interceptors","tag-missiles","tag-nowcast","tag-page","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-russia","tag-russia-attack","tag-russian-attack","tag-saturday-news-watch","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-strikes","tag-ukraine-war","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539","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=18539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}