At least two people were killed and five others injured, including a child, in a Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, overnight from July 15 to 16, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service says.
As of 7:00 a.m. on July 16, emergency authorities confirmed the casualties and said the attack targeted the Darnytskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts of the capital.
The strike sparked fires in warehouse and administrative buildings. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service did not specify what was stored in the affected warehouses.
In a statement published on Telegram on the morning of July 16, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its forces had struck “military-industrial enterprises involved in the production and storage of unmanned aerial vehicles” in Kyiv.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones targeted the Russian city of Engels, home to a major Russian military airbase.
Since the beginning of July, Russia has carried out several large-scale missile and drone attacks on Kyiv, causing extensive destruction and heavy civilian casualties, including damage to residential buildings. The first two major attacks, on July 2 and July 6, killed more than 40 people in total.
Following each of those attacks, Russia’s Defense Ministry similarly claimed that its strikes had targeted military-industrial facilities in Kyiv.
