Russian attack in Kyiv injures 10, including a child overnight

A Russian overnight attack on Kyiv on July 11 left 10 people injured, including one child. Impacts and fires were reported in the capital’s Solomianskyi, Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi Districts, the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine reported.

Initially, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that eight people had been injured, but the SES later clarified that the number of injured had risen to 10.

“Among the injured is an 11-year-old boy. Four of the injured are in city hospitals. Medics treated the others at the scene,” Klitschko wrote.

In the Solomianskyi district, a three-story office and warehouse building caught fire following an impact. The fire has been extinguished. At another location, the blast wave damaged a railway locomotive.

In the Darnytskyi District, an impact on a roadway caused a traffic signal control panel to catch fire. The blaze was extinguished. The blast wave shattered windows in nearby residential buildings.

Aftermath of the Russian attack on Kyiv

In the Dniprovskyi District, an impact sparked a fire in a warehouse.

Rescuers and other emergency services are working at the sites.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that over the course of the night, Russians launched more than 120 drones and 12 missiles, half of them ballistic. Our defenders managed to shoot down most of the targets – but not the ballistic ones.

“We expect our partners to deliver on their promises regarding support packages agreed at the NATO Summit to help protect our people. We must move as swiftly as possible on licensing agreements for Patriots and the joint European anti-ballistic defence project,” the President stated.

To provide background, Russian attacks on 9 July killed five civilians and injured at least 79 others across six Ukrainian regions, according to the National Police. Those killed were in the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Kharkiv Oblasts, while the injured were reported in those regions as well as the Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts.

On July 8, Russian attacks killed 17 civilians across Ukraine.

Meanwhile, by supplying gasoline to Russia during its fuel crisis, India and Belarus are helping replenish fuel supplies that support Russia’s wartime economy and military operations despite its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, as Reuters reported.

Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

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