Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned of a likely attack ahead of meeting with US President Donald Trump.A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv has killed at least 14 people and damaged more than a dozen residential buildings in the second large-scale assault on the Ukrainian capital in less than a week.The attack early on Monday morning wounded at least 46 people, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Sports stadium becomes home for victims of the Venezuela earthquakeslist 2 of 4OPEC+ countries say they will expand monthly oil productionlist 3 of 4Bellingham inspires 10-man England to beat Mexico 3-2 in last-16 thrillerlist 4 of 4Which teams are in the World Cup quarterfinals, and what’s the schedule?end of listSix more people were killed and at least 10 others wounded in districts surrounding Kyiv, authorities said.Ukraine’s military said Russia fired 68 missiles and launched 351 drones overnight.This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service on July 6, 2026 shows rescuers working on a residential building partially destroyed as a result of Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine [AFP]The Kyiv Independent reported that the first explosions were heard at about 1:40am local time (10:40 GMT Sunday), followed by more strikes at 2:10am and 3:15am.Thousands of residents fled to underground shelters, the online news site reported, as air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine.Rescue work is under way across the capital and the death toll could rise, Tkachenko told reporters.“Unfortunately, this is not the final information,” he said.‘Typical of Putin’In his nightly address on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that another Russian assault might be coming before the NATO summit in Turkiye this week.He is due to meet United States President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the summit, which begins on Tuesday.“Intelligence once again indicates that the Russians are preparing a new massive strike,” Zelenskyy said. “This is typical of Putin: right after America’s Independence Day and before the NATO summit in Ankara.”Late last week, Russia hit the Ukrainian capital with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, killing 31 people.The strikes were the deadliest to hit Kyiv this year.Both Russia and Ukraine have recently expanded their use of long-range weapons, including missiles, marking a new front in the four-year war.Ukraine has focused its attacks on Russian energy facilities to weaken its war efforts.Trump said on Monday a resolution to the war in Ukraine is “getting closer than people realise” and that he will discuss Ukraine at the NATO summit.Separately, the Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump had agreed in a weekend call that they would talk again “in the near future”, suggesting they are likely to talk this week during or after the NATO summit.Attacks on RussiaUkrainian drones struck Russia’s Omsk refinery, the country’s largest and located deep in Siberia, in what would be one of the longest-ranged Ukrainian strikes since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s military said on Monday.Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement that the attack had caused a fire at the refinery, which is located around 2,700km (1,700 miles) from Ukrainian-held territory and close to Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.In a post on Telegram, Omsk region governor Vitaly Khotsenko did not specify a target, but said that several Ukrainian drones had reached “Omsk’s northern industrial hub”, where the refinery is located.He said that the full impact of the attack was being assessed and emergency services were dealing with the aftermath.Meanwhile, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the governor of Russian-controlled Sevastopol, a Black Sea port in Crimea, said a Ukrainian strike near the city had knocked out electricity supplies.“Following an enemy attack on energy infrastructure near Sevastopol, our city was temporarily left without electricity,” Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram.
Russian attacks on Ukraine kill 20 on eve of NATO summit, authorities say
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned of a likely attack ahead of meeting with US President Donald Trump.











