Attacks ‘getting worse’: Deadly Russian strikes hit Ukrainian cities
30 July 2026
Peace and SecurityAid workers and first responders raced to help people across Ukraine after a wave of deadly Russian missile and drone strikes overnight as concerns mounted over military activity near nuclear power plants on Thursday.
Reports from the ground point to widespread damage to homes and civilian buildings, with search and rescue teams moving quickly to reach destroyed structures. The strikes killed at least a dozen people and injured more than 100.“The attacks were getting worse,” said Kyiv resident Maryna, who sought shelter with her children overnight in a metro station with many others after warnings of another attack. “I want to be in my own bed, with my own toys,” her six-year-old daughter, Milana, said.Condemning the strikes, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for de-escalation and a ceasefire.“Any attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, wherever they occur, are a clear violation of international humanitarian law and must stop immediately,” UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said.Here’s the latest from UN agencies on the ground:Increased military activity near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant further challenges efforts to maintain nuclear safety and security at the site, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in its latest situation updateAt least three children were killed in Radushne, Kryvyi Rih and at least seven children injured in Lviv, Kherson region and Kyiv region, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported, adding that “more young lives [are] devastated by war as deadly attacks persist”“Once again, families in the Dnipro region, Lviv and Kyiv have lost loved ones or been left without homes,” the UN emergency relief agency, OCHA, said in a social media post“Following today’s large-scale Russian attack across Ukraine, residential buildings and other facilities in Lviv were damaged, resulting in civilian casualties,” according to a social media post by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR
