Russian missile, drone attack on Ukraine’s capital kills at least 10
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- Russia launched waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv early Monday (July 6, 2026), killing at least 10 people and injuring 46, with emergency workers combing through rubble at residential high-rises hit in two locations.
- The barrage used ballistic and cruise missiles alongside drones, partially collapsing a residential building in the Podilskyi district and damaging several multistory buildings in the Darnytsia district, where people were believed trapped underneath.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned hours earlier that another large-scale Russian attack on the capital was imminent, then renewed calls for Western partners to supply more Patriot missiles, saying failing to replenish them "emboldens Russia to prolong its four-year war."
- Monday's strike came just days after a combined Russian attack killed at least 31 people in Kyiv last week — the second mass-casualty barrage to hit the capital in under a week.
- Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's City Military Administration, condemned the targeting in a Telegram post: "These are residential buildings. Places where people slept and lived their ordinary lives."
Why it matters: Two mass-casualty strikes on Kyiv within a week have turned the capital's air defense gap into the most urgent variable of the war. Zelenskyy is converting the body count — at least 41 dead across both attacks — into a specific, narrow ask: Patriot missile resupply, without which he says Russia will keep hammering civilian high-rises.
