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Kyiv, Ukraine
Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and destroying warehouses and logistics centres of major retailers, Ukrainian officials said, as a shortage of air defence missiles leaves Ukraine vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Multiple explosions ripped through the area during the night, and fires lit up the dark skies over the Ukrainian capital, which has come under missile attack every three to four days in recent weeks as Russia has escalated its air war.<\/p>\n

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Police officers and security guard at the site of the building of a supermarket warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 5th August, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Gleb Garanich<\/p>\n

\u201cBallistic missile interceptors could have saved the lives of those killed today,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram, urging Ukraine\u2019s foreign allies to replenish its supplies of interceptors. Deliveries of air defence missiles were three times smaller than in 2025, he added.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian air defences downed nearly 90 per cent of the 115 drones launched by Russia but failed to intercept a single one of the 24 ballistic missiles and four Zircon cruise missiles, the air force said.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said it had struck seven logistics centres in Kyiv and the region, accusing them of being used to store or distribute dual-use goods and drone components.<\/p>\n

For months, Ukraine has suffered from a critical shortage of air defence missiles for US Patriot systems, the only weapon in its arsenal capable of downing Russia\u2019s ballistic missiles, which travel at many times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n

Since the Iran war broke out in February, Patriots earmarked for Ukraine have been diverted to the US military and US allies in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

Russia, meanwhile,\u00a0has intensified its ballistic strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities as its advances on the frontline have slowed considerably this year.<\/p>\n

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Bodies scattered across platform
Officials said more than 40 people were injured in the attack.<\/p>\n

At a commuter station in the Kyiv suburb of Brovary, seven bodies were scattered across the platform. The body of an eighth victim lay in the bushes nearby, Reuters TV images showed.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople missed their last train. For now, we know of eight dead,\u201d said Volodymyr Bigun, head of Brovary\u2019s local administration, adding that five logistics warehouses had been hit in the district, including food retailer Fozzy. \u201cThe enemy continues to hit civilian infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war triggered by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022.<\/p>\n

As Kyiv aims to bring the war back to Russia, Ukraine hit a logistics hub of Russian online retailer Wildberries overnight, adding to more than a dozen it has damaged recently.<\/p>\n

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A resident looks at a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine, in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on 5th August, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Anatolii Stepanov<\/p>\n

Facilities destroyed within minutes
Epicentr, Ukraine\u2019s largest home improvement and DIY retail chain, said two key logistics facilities and a factory were destroyed within minutes during the attacks, and it was still assessing the full scale of the damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a deliberate attack on Ukrainian manufacturing, logistics, jobs and the country\u2019s ability to recover,\u201d Epicentr said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Food retailer Silpo said on Facebook at least six of its employees had been killed and two distribution centres set ablaze by the strikes.<\/p>\n

Iryna Chechotkina, co-founder of leading online retailer Rozetka, said she watched\u00a0overnight as\u00a0the work of her entire life went up in flames\u00a0after\u00a0strikes by three ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did I feel that night? Devastation and pain,\u201d she said on Facebook. \u201cA feeling that I must carry on despite everything. ROZETKA is still operating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s economy has proved remarkably resilient over more than four years of war, backed by billions in financial aid from Western partners. But this year the business losses are piling up.<\/p>\n

The Kyiv regional military administration said 13 warehouses were damaged in Wednesday\u2019s attack, as well as a manufacturing facility and four private homes, and dozens of vehicles.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi, who took office last month in a reshuffle, said the government would call an emergency meeting with businesses to work out how to secure smooth operations of logistics and trade companies.<\/p>\n

Kyiv sought more PAC-3s, the newest type of Patriot interceptor missile.<\/p>\n

The United States is pressing ahead with talks to allow Ukraine to make Patriot missiles, even after President Donald Trump cast doubt on such a deal, four sources familiar with the discussions said.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Additional reporting by ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC, JEKATER\u012aNA GOLUBKOVA and RON POPESKI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region on Wednesday, killing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,2062,25,26,227,412,7545,7199],"class_list":["post-24906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kyiv","tag-logistics","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-conflict","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-warehouses","tag-wildberries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906","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=24906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}