Russia strikes Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih and cargo ship

Russian forces launched a widespread drone and ballistic missile attack against Ukraine early Sunday morning, July 26, causing fires across multiple districts in the capital, Kyiv, and striking a shopping center in the central city of Kryvyi Rih. The overnight barrage also followed deadly strikes in southern Ukraine the previous day and a separate maritime attack on a civilian cargo ship.

In Kyiv, air raid alerts sounded as ballistic missiles were launched toward the capital. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that falling debris from intercepted missiles sparked fires in at least three districts: Desnianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Solomianskyi. One significant incident involved debris striking an 18-story residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, igniting a fire on the seventh and eighth floors. Emergency crews extinguished that blaze and others, including a fire at a 150-square-meter warehouse and parked vehicles in Desnianskyi and a fire in a four-story abandoned building in Shevchenkivskyi. Authorities reported no casualties in the capital.

Concurrently, Russian forces attacked Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region early Sunday. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the...