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During Russia’s devastating overnight assault on July 2, tens of thousands of Kyiv residents sought safety underground. This couple was filmed sharing a gentle moment while comforting their pet rabbit inside a metro station serving as a shelter.
Video: kulchyk_ / Instagram.
A record 52,500 people, including 4,500 children among them, spent the night of July 2 sheltering inside Kyiv’s underground metro stations as Russia targeted the capital with a massive missile and drone strike, the Kyiv Metro reported on Telegram.
Thousands more packed into basements and parking garages across the city while the attack killed at least 18 people and caused widespread destruction across all districts.
Photo: Kostiantyn Liberov; Danylo Dubchak; Roman Pilipey / Getty Images; Kyiv Metro / Telegram.
Waves of Russian missiles and strike drones pummeled Kyiv overnight on July 2, just hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was preparing another large-scale attack against Ukraine.
At least eighteen people have been killed, Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS)said, adding that search and rescue operations were ongoing at several sites including a partially collapsed multi-story residential building in the Darnitskyi District. The death toll is likely to rise further.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko put the number of injured at 86, 70 of whom had been hospitalized, and described the attack as the "most massive" of the war on the capital.
"It was a terrible night for Kyiv," he said, adding there was "damage in all districts of the city." A Day of Mourning on July 3 has been declared in Kyiv, Klitschko said. Two of the injured are children, DSNS said.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 74 missiles and 496 long-range drones during the attack, most of which targeted Kyiv. Forty-eight missiles and 476 drones were shot down or suppressed but 25 ballistic missiles and 12 drones struck 33 locations.
Twenty-eight of the missiles fired at Kyiv were ballistic missiles, a record number for a single attack on the capital, Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, said on national TV.
As of 7:00 a.m. local time, damage and destruction had been recorded at more than 30 locations across all districts of Kyiv as a result of the attack.
Read more updates: https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-rock-kyiv-as-ukraine-braces-for-russias-next-bombardment/
Photo: Genya Savilov; Roman Pilipey; Kostiantyn Liberov; State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Tetiana Dzhafarova; Danylo Dubchak / Getty Images.
Waves of Russian missiles and strike drones pummeled Kyiv overnight on July 2, just hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was preparing another large-scale attack against Ukraine.
At least eighteen people have been killed, Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS)said, adding that search and rescue operations were ongoing at several sites including a partially collapsed multi-story residential building in the Darnitskyi District. The death toll is likely to rise further.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko put the number of injured at 86, 70 of whom had been hospitalized, and described the attack as the "most massive" of the war on the capital.
"It was a terrible night for Kyiv," he said, adding there was "damage in all districts of the city." A Day of Mourning on July 3 has been declared in Kyiv, Klitschko said. Two of the injured are children, DSNS said.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 74 missiles and 496 long-range drones during the attack, most of which targeted Kyiv. Forty-eight missiles and 476 drones were shot down or suppressed but 25 ballistic missiles and 12 drones struck 33 locations.
Twenty-eight of the missiles fired at Kyiv were ballistic missiles, a record number for a single attack on the capital, Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, said on national TV.
As of 7:00 a.m. local time, damage and destruction had been recorded at more than 30 locations across all districts of Kyiv as a result of the attack.
Read more updates: https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-rock-kyiv-as-ukraine-braces-for-russias-next-bombardment/
Photo: Genya Savilov; Roman Pilipey; Kostiantyn Liberov; State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Tetiana Dzhafarova; Danylo Dubchak / Getty Images.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of an impending massive Russian strike, stating that he received “very troubling” intelligence regarding a new large-scale attack on Ukraine.
Zelensky made the statement during a joint press conference with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, where they had met alongside European Council President António Costa to discuss Ukraine’s EU path ahead of Ireland’s upcoming EU presidency.
Video: President Volodymyr Zelensky / Telegram.