Russian strikes across Ukraine kill eight, including three children, wound at least 16 overnight
Russian armed forces killed eight people, including two boys and a girl, in their Russian missile and drone attack across the capital of Kyiv and the Kyiv, Lviv, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr and Poltava Regions (Oblasts), according to local officials.
Aftermath of Russian attack in Lviv on 30 July, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russians had launched more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones at the country overnight. The worst attack was near Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih. Dozens of “ordinary homes, civilian businesses and infrastructure facilities” were destroyed or damaged in the attack, he added.
A six-year-old girl and two boys, aged 11 and 17, were among six killed when a Russian ballistic missile hit the Ukrainian village of Radushne, a few kilometres from Kryvyi Rih, local defence council chief Oleksandr Vilkul said.
The missile had hit a home where a large family lived, according to Vilkul, and Zelensky said the house had been “blown into smithereens”.
In Kyiv, a 31-year-old man was killed in a Russian attack, and fires broke out in three non-residential buildings overnight, the capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, wrote on Telegram. The other two men, aged 30 and 53, were injured, the National Police of Ukraine reported.
Five people, including a child, were wounded in a Russian strike on the Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) reported. The attack partially destroyed a two-story home in the village of Skybyn in the Brovary District. The blast wave and falling debris also damaged two neighbouring homes. Emergency crews pulled three people from the rubble and transferred them to paramedics.
The strikes also caused widespread damage; in the Poltava Oblast, for example, Russian forces hit a Nova Poshta delivery terminal, while in the Cherkasy region, homes and a commercial enterprise were struck.
Aftermath of Russian attack in Lviv on 30 July, 2026There were also explosions in Lviv, and Mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported residential buildings had been damaged. Multiple people were injured, with some trapped under a building, he added, saying residents were helping rescuers to clear the rubble.
Aftermath of Russian attack in Lviv on 30 July, 2026Russian cruise missile had also crossed neighbouring Poland as part of an attack on Ukraine, “violating Nato airspace”, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was heading to the site of a 10 m crater (33ft), in a field about 2km away from the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, Lublin province, in the south.
Kyiv has blamed Russia for the crater, with Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha saying: “Overnight, a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into Poland as part of Russia’s massive strike against Ukraine, violating NATO airspace.”
Meanwhile, in Russia, a regional official reported an overnight attack on the warehouse of a retailer in the city of Penza. One person was injured at a Wildberries facility, Regional Governor Oleg Melnichenko posted on Telegram.
The military action follows repeated calls by Ukraine’s president to bolster Kyiv’s anti-ballistic missile defences.
“The protection of people’s lives depends directly on their willingness, or lack of willingness, to provide air defence missiles,” President Zelenskyy wrote on X on Wednesday.
The Patriot is one of the few air defence systems able to intercept ballistic missiles, which Russia has increasingly used to bombard Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian experts point out that countries, including China, Greece, North Korea, Hungary, Slovakia, Iran, and Brazil, assist Moscow in killing Ukrainians in its war against Ukraine by funding the Russian budget through trade.
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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