Kyiv - Russia launched an 11-hour barrage of nearly 500 drones and more than 70 missiles — nearly half of them ballistic — against Kyiv on the night of July 2, killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 100 others, as Ukrainian officials brought more than 70 foreign ambassadors and heads of international organisations to the wreckage of a collapsed apartment block the following morning.
Witnessing the devastation caused by the 11-hour overnight barrage over Kyiv, foreign representatives in the country were urged to push for stronger air defense support. Casualties has reached 27 by Friday, 3 July 2026, according to Ukrainian Embassy Jakarta.
Damage was reported in every district of the capital. The worst affected was the Darnytskyi district, where six floors of a nine-storey residential building collapsed, trapping people underneath, including a 15-year-old girl and her family.
(Rescuers continue combing collapsed building to rescue victims under debris on Thursday, 2 July 2026 (Photo/Ukranian Foreign Ministry))
The attack lasted 11 hours, with air raid sirens sounding from around 8 p.m. local time well into the following morning.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called it a "night of horror" and rejected Moscow's framing of the strikes as retaliation, saying Ukraine was exercising its right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
He urged countries not to delay decisions on supplying air defence systems and missiles.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the bombardment targeted "exclusively military or military-linked targets," while Russia's Defence Ministry described it as a "massive retaliatory strike" for Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil facilities.
On Thursday, Ukraine's State Emergency Service Chief Andriy Danyk, accompanied by First Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Sergiy Kyslytsya and Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhen Perebyinis, briefed the assembled diplomatic corps at the site of the collapsed apartment block.
