Russia Intensifies Missile Strikes on Kyiv, Amid Growing Concerns Over NATO Involvement
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Moscow’s forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.
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Associated PressRussia has intensified ballistic missile attacks on the capital to constrain Kyiv’s air defense stocks. Kyiv has limited systems capable of intercepting ballistic threats, while supplies of missiles for its U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems remain chronically constrained.
New York TimesRussian Missiles Kill at Least 13 in Kyiv as Air Defenses Falter Moscow is taking advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stock of interceptors and is intensifying attacks, worsening the civilian death toll.
ABC NewsRecent months have seen an expansion of Russian missile attacks all across Ukraine, as officials in Kyiv warn that Ukrainian stocks of anti-missile interceptor munitions are dangerously low and, in some cases, exhausted.
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Russia’s threat of "consequences" against Britain and a stark warning from a senior Polish defense official are intensifying concerns that Moscow could seek to test NATO directly as the war in Ukraine continues.
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Washington TimesRussia “is increasingly testing the resolve of NATO and its partners, violating the sovereignty of neighboring states and deliberately expanding the risks posed by its war far beyond Ukraine,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on social media.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that lasted for hours and killed at least 16 people, officials said Thursday.
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ABC NewsUkraine's air force said it intercepted 186 missiles and drones. LONDON -- A "massive" Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv on Wednesday night killed at least 12 people and injured more than 40 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media on Thursday.
Associated PressKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile barrage overnight Thursday killed at least 12 people in Kyiv as explosions echoed across Ukraine’s capital throughout the night, local authorities said.
BBC NewsPublished A wave of overnight Russian missile strikes has killed at least eight people in the capital Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian authorities say.
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"Throughout the night, our emergency services have been working at the sites of Russian strikes," Zelenskyy wrote. "The attack was massive -- the Russians prepared for a long time and combined different types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones to inflict as much damage as possible on civilian infrastructure."
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Washington Times“It was a massive attack,” Zelenskyy said on social media, adding that Russia “had been preparing (it) for a long time, combining different types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, aiming to cause as much damage as possible to civilian infrastructure.”
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Explosions shatter windows and screams fill the air Russia’s overnight strikes hit 12 locations across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging 30 apartment blocks, a school, a children’s hospital and a kindergarten, Zelenskyy said.
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Associated PressThe strikes hit 12 locations across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution. Emergency crews were at the scene and pulled people out from under the rubble.
ABC NewsKyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in posts to Telegram that damage was reported in the Sviatoshynskyi, Solomianskyi and Darnitskyi areas of the city, including fires at warehouses and residential buildings.
BBC NewsKyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a children's hospital had been damaged in the overnight strikes, where windows were broken and cars set ablaze nearby.
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The Russian Defense Ministry said it struck a Kyiv industrial site manufacturing components for Flamingo cruise missiles. Sites involved in the production and storage of drones, an ammunition depot and a logistics center were also hit, it said.
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ReutersRussia strikes drone component facilities, other targets in Kyiv, defence ministry says - Reuters Russia strikes drone component facilities, other targets in Kyiv, defence ministry says Reuters
ABC NewsRussia's Defense Ministry described the overnight attack as having targeted "military industrial enterprises, a transport and logistics hub and warehouses in Kyiv and the Kyiv region."
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The Defense Ministry also said that it shot down at least 726 Ukrainian drones over 18 Russian regions plus Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. At least 28 drones were shot down over the Moscow region, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Telegram.
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Washington TimesThe Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 726 drones overnight over a number of Russian regions, annexed Crimea and the Black and Azov seas, in one of Ukraine’s biggest aerial attacks of the war.
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Meanwhile, Romania said one drone crossed into its territory at the northern border with Ukraine triggering an air alert siren.
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Washington TimesRomania’s Defense Ministry said that an unidentified drone crashed and burned in an uninhabited area near the Ukrainian border. Two Spanish F-18 jets, deployed on a policing mission in Romania, were scrambled after 2 a.m. local time to monitor a group of “air targets” near the border, the ministry said.
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Amid the attack on Kyiv, the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command activated its military aviation operations, ground-based air defense systems and radar reconnaissance. Polish and other NATO military aircraft were deployed to monitor its airspace, Polish news agency PAP reported.
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BBC NewsThe Polish military also said it had begun "defensive air operations" to protect its airspace, with the country sharing part of its south-eastern border with Ukraine.
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Over the past month, Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russian territory have targeted the online-retail giant Wildberries, destroying massive warehouses and logistics centers. Ukraine has accused Wildberries of supporting Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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BBC NewsSince July, Ukraine has repeatedly targeted a warehouse belonging to the online retailer Wildberries, known as Russia's version of Amazon. Ukraine's defence ministry said the latest attack meant that seven out of 10 of the largest Wildberries logistics centres had been "disabled".
Washington TimesAt the same time, Ukraine has shifted the war onto Russian soil through long-range drone strikes on oil facilities that have caused fuel shortages across the country. It has also unsettled the Russian public by striking warehouses of Wildberries, the country’s biggest online retailer.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The intensifying use of drones against civilians and humanitarian workers is a dangerous obstacle for aid operations in Ukraine, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, said on Wednesday.
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Associated PressThe intensifying use of drones against civilians and humanitarian workers has become a dangerous challenge for aid operations in Ukraine, the UN’s humanitarian chief said on Wednesday. Tom Fletcher described the visit to Kherson, split by the Dnipro River which acts as an active frontline, as “quite chilling” (AP Video shot by: Dan Bashakov).
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01 New York Times Bare Grocery Shelves Are a New Wartime Hardship for Ukrainians After years of pounding power plants and cities, Russia’s air war has taken aim at Ukraine’s supermarket warehouses.
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02 Fox News The embassy pointed to Poland’s defense spending of nearly 5% of GDP and invoked the Latin principle Si vis pacem, para bellum — "If you want peace, prepare for war" — saying that, given Russia’s war in Ukraine and what Poland views as Moscow’s imperial ambitions, strengthening deterrence is the country’s only sound strategy.
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03 ABC News "The main direction of the attack was the Kyiv region," the air force wrote in a post to Telegram. It added that 41 cruise missiles of various types and 145 drones were shot down or otherwise suppressed, with munitions reported impacting across 28 locations.
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04 BBC News Apartment blocks and warehouses were targeted in the "massive attack" on Thursday, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS). At least least 33 people were injured in the strikes.
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05 Associated Press 1:03 Earthquake in Indonesia kills 68, overshadowing Independence Day 1:05 Rising conflicts and shrinking aid strain demining in Asia
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06 Washington Times Zelenskyy repeats his appeals for more air defense President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for countries to send more Patriot interceptors for defense, but international stockpiles are low amid the Iran war and Kyiv’s more than four-year fight against Russia’s all-out invasion.
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