Back to feed · Event date: 08/01/26

Overnight strikes on Kyiv: ballistic missiles, damage, casualties

Side A

RF · Crimea · LDNR · new regions

Air-raid alert in Kyiv and the region from 01:29 Moscow time; at least six waves of explosions in the capital. More than 25 missiles toward Kyiv — ballistic Iskanders and hypersonic Zircons. Large fires afterward; power and water out in parts of the city.

On the night of 1 August Russian forces struck Kyiv and Kyiv region with ground- and sea-based precision weapons plus long-range attack drones, hitting defense-industry plants and military logistics hubs used to produce, store and deliver missiles, UAVs, radars and electronic-warfare gear. Air-raid alert in Kyiv and the region from 01:29 Moscow time; at least six waves of explosions in the capital. More than 25 missiles toward Kyiv — ballistic Iskanders and hypersonic Zircons. Large fires afterward; power and water out in parts of the city.

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Side B

West · Ukraine

Damage in Solomyanskyi, Holosiivskyi, Darnytskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts; power failed in places. Solomyanskyi: fire in a 6‑storey non-residential building, cars burning in a parking lot, people trapped in a five‑storey block after rocket debris hit, yard fire. Shevchenkivskyi: partial destruction of floors 1–2 of a residential building (people trapped), car-wash fire. Darnytskyi: debris on non-residential sites, warehouse fires. Holosiivskyi: debris on non-residential sites. In Bucha district of Kyiv region — fires at warehouses and residential buildings. By ~03:00 — 3 dead and initially 5, then 10 wounded; later 15 hospitalized, including boys aged 13 and 17. Nationwide overnight — more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones; deaths also in Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.

On the night of 1 August Kyiv was hit with ballistic missiles. Around 01:30 an alert went up over a ballistic threat (including from the Kursk direction); from 01:32 the city heard waves of explosions for about 30 minutes, with all-clear at 02:48. Around 03:17–03:20 — a second ballistic attack and fresh blasts. Damage in Solomyanskyi, Holosiivskyi, Darnytskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts; power failed in places. Solomyanskyi: fire in a 6‑storey non-residential building, cars burning in a parking lot, people trapped in a five‑storey block after rocket debris hit, yard fire. Shevchenkivskyi: partial destruction of floors 1–2 of a residential building (people trapped), car-wash fire. Darnytskyi: debris on non-residential sites, warehouse fires. Holosiivskyi: debris on non-residential sites. In Bucha district of Kyiv region — fires at warehouses and residential buildings. By ~03:00 — 3 dead and initially 5, then 10 wounded; later 15 hospitalized, including boys aged 13 and 17. Nationwide overnight — more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones; deaths also in Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.