At least 15 people were killed and 42 others wounded as Russia pummeled Ukraine’s capital region with ballistic missiles and drones overnight, officials said.
Ukraine’s emergency service said 14 people were dead and 27 wounded in the wider Kyiv region and reported fires at multiple locations in Brovary, Bucha and Fastiv districts.
Russia reciprocated Ukraine’s attacks on its logistics hub Wildberries as large warehouse fires burned in the city of Brovary and the villages of Velyka Dymerka, Kvitneve and Peremoha.
In Bucha district, crews battled a warehouse fire in the village of Chaiky after putting out a separate fire at a logistics facility in Sofiivska Borshchahivka.
Air raid alerts were sounded for more than an hour across the capital of three million, where the military administration said seven sites were hit in an assault that began after midnight.
The attack comes as a Kyiv military intelligence official said a North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to western Russia and could be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers for strikes against Ukraine.
14 killed as Russia strikes Kyiv region to avenge attacks on warehouses
Russian strikes around Ukraine's capital of Kyiv killed fourteen people, injured 27 and damaged warehouses overnight, emergency service officials said on the Telegram messaging app.
Air raid alerts lasted for more than an hour across the capital of 3 million, where the military administration said seven sites were pummelled in an assault that began after midnight.
Authorities said one person died, 24 were injured and buildings damaged in several areas of Kyiv.
“There may still be people under the rubble,” mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram after rescuers pulled two people from the ruins of a warehouse near the city centre that was destroyed in the attack.
“Search and rescue operations are proceeding." An ambulance driver was among the 24 injured, four of them still in critical condition, he added.
US presses on with Ukraine Patriot missile talks, sources say, despite Trump's doubts
The US is pressing ahead with talks on allowing Ukraine to make Patriot interceptor missiles, which Kyiv urgently wants to defend against Russian attacks, even after president Donald Trump cast doubt on such a deal, four sources familiar with the discussions said.
The discussions include an option for Ukraine to build some components for final assembly elsewhere in Europe, the sources added. Kyiv has been seeking more PAC-3s, the newest type of Patriot missile and one of the few weapons capable of downing the ballistic missiles Russia has been launching into Ukraine in growing numbers.
During a meeting with Zelenskiy in Ankara, Turkey, last month, Trump said the US would grant Ukraine a license to manufacture PAC-3s in a boost for Kyiv.
But last week, Trump appeared to reverse course after what two of the sources described as a challenging meeting with Zelensky at the White House.
He told reporters that the US had not agreed to letting Ukraine build Patriot missiles and the US must be “very careful about letting somebody build them.”
Washington's envoy to Nato, Matthew Whitaker, is now leading the push to reach an agreement and traveled to Kyiv last month to discuss the issue and assess options with Ukrainian officials and weapons industry executives, the four sources said.
“No order was given to halt the discussions,” one of the sources said, adding that talks continued with US arms makers, military officials and others.
Russia says it hit logistic hubs in Kyiv and nearby region
Russia has hit logistic hubs and supply centres in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region, the Russian defence ministry said on Telegram, claiming that those were used for military purposes.
It has also hit three cargo vessels near the Black Sea port of Odesa, it said.
North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says
A North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to western Russia and could be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers for strikes against Ukraine, an official at Ukraine's military intelligence agency said.
Andrii Cherniak of Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence said Russia planned to base the missile unit of around 90 North Korean personnel in the western Russian region of Voronezh, within its 112th Missile Brigade.
Pyongyang has already sent a new batch of 40 KN-23 and KN-24 missiles and personnel to Russia, but the configuration of the deployment and total number of missiles will be finalised at top-level talks next month, he said.
Russia expects the deployment to involve 120 North Korean ballistic missiles and six launchers, he said. It is not clear what precise role the North Koreans would play in Russian missile operations.
The deployment described by Cherniak appears to coincide with Russia last week firing its first two North Korean missiles at Ukraine since last August.
Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Philadelphia-based think tank, said the North Korean resources were a significant threat for Kyiv.
In photos: Smoke shrouds Kyiv as major attack rips through Ukraine capital
Death toll rises in Kyiv as 14 killed in Russian ballistic missiles attack
Russian strikes killed fourteen people, injured another 27 and damaged a number of warehouses in the region surrounding Ukraine's capital of Kyiv overnight, the emergency service said in a Telegram post.
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with waves of ballistic missiles in the early hours today, triggering fires in a 20-storey apartment block and other buildings, the city's mayor said.
Mayor says 184 drones targeted Moscow area yesterday
A total of 184 Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow and the surrounding area throughout the day on Tuesday, the city's mayor said.
Sergei Sobyanin, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that count was registered between 8.30am to 10pm.
Most of the drones had been intercepted some distance from the capital, he said, with 18 destroyed on approach to the city.
Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow have become a common occurrence in recent months. On rare occasions, drones have damaged buildings in the city.
Why Ukraine is targeting Russia’s ‘Amazon’ Wildberries with major strikes
Ukraine launched a wave of drone strikes deep into Russia this week, hitting a major logistics hub belonging to e-commerce Wildberries in the Ryazan region.
Ukrainian drones struck two more warehouses belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries overnight on Thursday, sparking fires at both sites, the company and a regional official said.
Ukraine has attacked about a dozen Wildberries sites since July 18 in a bid to disrupt the operations of the company, a linchpin of the consumer economy that is often described as Russia's answer to Amazon. Kyiv accused the firm of helping to bolster Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
According to Data Insight analyst Sergei Semko, goods destroyed by strikes on Wildberries warehouses in Moscow and Tambov regions alone were worth up to an estimated $2.9bn.
Russian shipping firm suspends Black Sea orders after Ukrainian drone attack
Russian logistics and shipping group FESCO has suspended accepting new shipment requests via the Black Sea after a Ukrainian drone attack on one of its vessels, the company said on Tuesday.
Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom, which owns FESCO, said earlier that the vessel Yanina was damaged by Ukrainian seaborne drones and sank in the Black Sea overnight from Friday to Saturday.
Putin lifts recent deposit restrictions from foreign national and firms' Russia-based branches
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a decree exempting bank deposits held by foreign citizens and Russian-registered branches of overseas companies from recently imposed restrictions that had effectively frozen the funds.
Moscow introduced special "Type C" bank accounts in 2022 that serve as a financial blockade against what Russia deems "unfriendly countries" – nations that imposed sanctions on the Kremlin over its military operation in Ukraine.
Funds belonging to foreign investors, major Western corporations, and institutional funds are directed into these accounts and effectively frozen.
From 1 June, 2026, bank deposits of foreigners from unfriendly countries were also frozen in the special Type C accounts.
However, according to the new amendments, those restrictions on bank deposit withdrawals will no longer apply to foreign individuals, or to deposits made by branches, permanent representative offices, and other structural units of foreign companies, provided they are registered within the Russian Federation.
Under the decree, these categories of foreign depositors are permitted to freely manage their funds and withdraw ruble equivalents that were credited to Type-C accounts between 1 June, 2026, and the document’s effective date on 4 August, 2026.