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Russian missiles struck the Boryspil district east of Kyiv again on Saturday, killing three people, including a child, and wounding three others, according to regional administration head Tymur Tkachenko. Falling debris damaged apartment buildings and cars, while fires broke out at multiple locations across the capital. Separately, Russian glide bomb strikes on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least two people and injured eleven, and a drone strike on Kherson killed a woman in a targeted vehicle attack. President Zelenskyy traveled to Belgrade for talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, who has refused to apply sanctions on Russia, as the US Senate passed an 86–11 vote on sweeping sanctions legislation that would impose up to 100 percent tariffs on countries importing Russian oil and gas, though a House vote is not expected before early September.
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The death toll from the attack has risen to at least 21, with the United Nations confirming at least 20 killed across Ukraine, most of them in and around Kyiv. Eight people were among those killed at Kvitneva railway station near Kyiv, where the platform and an adjacent warehouse were both struck. Russia fired 24 ballistic missiles alongside the 115 drones — none of the missiles were intercepted, as Ukraine's air defenses shot down 98 drones but lacked the capability to counter the ballistic threat. President Zelenskyy said supplies of air defense missiles in the first half of this year fell to a third of their 2024 level, and directly blamed allies for delays in delivering anti-ballistic systems, saying such delays "lead directly to such horrific casualties and destruction."
A Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region in the early hours of Wednesday killed at least 14 people and injured 27 others, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Ukrainian capital this year. The assault began after midnight, with air raid alerts remaining active for more than an hour as waves of missiles struck the city and its surrounding districts. Nine people were killed in the Boryspil district, four in the Bucha district, and one in Fastiv — all areas in the greater Kyiv region. At least four of the injured were reported to be in serious condition.
Seven sites came under fire during the attack, damaging residential buildings and multiple warehouses near the city centre. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that one warehouse building had been destroyed and that rescue teams were pulling people from the rubble, warning that more might still be trapped. Russia's defence ministry claimed the strikes targeted logistics hubs and supply centres involved in storing and delivering weapons, as well as in drone production. Russia also said it struck three cargo vessels near the Black Sea port of Odesa. Ukrainian authorities rejected the framing, saying the strikes deliberately targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure.
The attack highlights a critical and widening vulnerability in Ukraine's defences. Of the 27 ballistic missiles Russia fired during the strike, only one was intercepted — a stark illustration of the shortage of interceptor missiles for Ukraine's US-made Patriot air defence systems. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly sounded the alarm over this deficit, arguing that the shortage
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