At least 15 people were killed and more than 50 injured after Russia launched a large-scale overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding Kyiv Oblast, causing widespread destruction, major fires, and extensive rescue operations.
The heaviest losses were recorded in Brovary district, where nine people were killed. Four more civilians died in Bucha district, while one person was killed in Fastiv district. Authorities said 12 people were injured in Brovary district, seven in Bucha district, and three in Fastiv district.
Emergency responders were deployed to seven locations across the three affected districts. Large warehouse fires broke out in Brovary, Velyka Dymerka, Kvitneve, and Peremoha. In Fastiv district, firefighters extinguished a blaze involving vehicles at a business site. In Bucha district, crews continued battling a warehouse fire in the village of Chaiky, while another fire at a logistics facility in Sofiivska Borshchahivka was brought under control.
In Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 15 of the injured required hospitalization, with four reported in critical condition. Search-and-rescue teams pulled two people alive from beneath the rubble of a collapsed warehouse in the Holosiivskyi district, although officials warned more victims could still be trapped.
Damage was reported in several parts of the capital, including the Holosiivskyi, Obolonskyi, Desnianskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi districts. In Obolonskyi, a ballistic missile struck a 20-story residential building, triggering a major fire. Another apartment building and two warehouse facilities also caught fire. In Desnianskyi district, a warehouse burned while missile debris landed near residential buildings. A large fire also broke out in the Kyiv-Sviatoshynskyi area outside the capital.
Ukraine‘s Air Force said Russia launched 24 ballistic missiles, four hypersonic missiles, and 115 Shahed-type attack drones during the overnight assault.
According to the military, none of the ballistic or hypersonic missiles were intercepted. Why?
No interceptors? Or refusal to use what they do have? I don’t know.
Read below;
During last night’s major attack on Kyiv, Ukraine appears not to have intercepted any Russian missiles, according to preliminary data from the country’s air defenses. That is neither surprising nor good, says military expert Joakim Paasikivi.
This could be a sign that Ukrainian missile stocks have reached a critically low level.
However, it cannot be ruled out that Ukraine is deliberately withholding information to further reinforce the message that the outside world needs to send more air defence, according to Lieutenant Colonel Johan Huovinen.
So, lack of air defence or holding out for more? Maybe a bit of both?
Ukraine’s former ambassador to US faces anti-corruption probe
Two days after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy officially dismissed Olha Stefanishyna as Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, she has been formally notified that she is a suspect in an anti-corruption investigation.
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s former ambassador to the US, is under investigation in an anti-corruption case, with the High Anti-Corruption Court holding a hearing on the matter in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Two days after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy officially dismissed Olha Stefanishyna as Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, she has been formally notified that she is a suspect in an anti-corruption investigation.
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s former ambassador to the US, is under investigation in an anti-corruption case, with the High Anti-Corruption Court holding a hearing on the matter in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s state broadcaster Suspilne reports that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) served Stefanishyna with a new notice of suspicion on 5 August.
According to the SAPO prosecutor, Stefanishyna – a former ambassador to the US and ex–deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration – is accused of failing to declare two apartments and cash used to pay for renovations, airline tickets and the rent on another apartment.
She is also alleged to have failed to disclose her use of a car registered to one of her subordinates.
She hasn’t fled to Israel at this point in time.. Perhaps she can’t like so many other corrupt Ukrainian officials? Or she just hasn’t got there yet?
Most recent corrupt Ukrainian that headed straight to Israel
Legal proceedings expected to take place in absentia against entertainment tycoon Timur Mindich, who is accused of masterminding $100-million embezzlement plot at state companies
There is also..Alexander Tsukerman: A prominent businessman implicated alongside Mindich in the energy sector graft scandal, who also escaped to Israel
Denys Komarnytskyi: A former member of the Kyiv City Council suspected in separate land-related corruption schemes who also fled to Israel
But, I digress 😉