Kyiv's military administration said in a statement that the attacks - combining ballistic missiles and drone strikes - were a deliberate attempt to target civilians10:21, 05 Aug 2026Russia rained down a series of horror drone and missile strikes on Kyiv overnight that killed more than a dozen people and left a further 42 wounded in one of the deadliest strikes on the country this year.‌Ash and fire choked the skies above Ukraine's capital following the deadly large-scale attack after it killed at least 15 people just days after seven people died in an earlier strike on Monday. The city and its surrounds were left in smouldering ruins, with dramatic new pictures showing resulting fires surging through the area - and firefighters' desperate attempts to quell them.‌The attacks look set to only continue,with the latest being part of a series of large-scale Russian ballistic missile strikes that have become near-routine this summer, and that Ukraine has struggled to defend against.‌Ukraine has a single air defence system in its arsenal, the US-made MIM-104 Patriot, supplies of which it has been receiving since the country penned a deal with the Biden administration 2023. The system is the sole defence it has to ballistic missiles, meaning the volley of 24 ballistic missiles, 115 drones and four anti-ship missiles were difficult for it to intercept.Kyiv's defence ministry said it was able to shoot down 98 of the drones after Kyiv's military administration said Russia deliberately targeted civilians.‌Administrator Timur Tkachenko said in a statement: "The enemy is once again deliberately striking civilians and civilian infrastructure." Air raid sirens sounded throughout the city overnight on Tuesday, and the administration added that warehouses and residential buildings were damaged in the attack.Katarina Mathernova, Ukraine's ambassador to the European Union, said sirens only stopped ringing in the morning, with rescue teams "still pulling people from the rubble" as 9am approached.‌She wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter: "Others are still trapped beneath collapsed buildings. Russia is trying to break Kyiv. The attacks come so often now that people no longer have time to breathe between them. They barely recover from one night before the next one begins."Last night alone, Russia fired 28 ballistic and hypersonic missiles and more than 100 drones at Ukraine. Kyiv and the surrounding region were the main targets."‌"More than 30 missiles were launched within about 20 minutes, followed by waves of jet powered Shahed drones, then another barrage of missiles. None of the ballistic missiles were intercepted. Ukraine badly needs Patriot interceptors, the only protection against ballistic missiles. The consequences are devastating."Fires raged at multiple locations in Brovary, Bucha and Fastiv districts, Ukraine's emergency service said. Large warehouse fires burned in the city of Brovary and the villages of Velyka Dymerka, Kvitneve and Peremoha.‌A fire involving vehicles at an enterprise in Fastiv district was extinguished. In Bucha district, crews battled a warehouse fire in the village of Chaiky after putting out a separate fire at a logistics facility in Sofiivska Borshchahivka. In the capital, one person was killed and 15 were wounded.Emergency crews extinguished all fires sparked by the strikes in the Obolonskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Holosiivskyi and Desnianskyi districts, the Kyiv City Military Administration said.‌Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine's president on defense technology development, said the war of attrition has entered a new phase. "The enemy is attacking everything indiscriminately - retail warehouses, food storage facilities, logistics hubs, enterprises, building materials warehouses," he said on Facebook.Russia's defence ministry has claimed that it had targeted logistics hubs and supply centres in Kyiv and the Ukrainian capital's surrounding areas.‌It said in its own statement: "These centres were involved in the storage, delivery of various weapons and military supplies, as well as in the production and distribution of unmanned aerial vehicles." Ukraine has been urgently calling for more Patriot systems to intercept Russian attacks in recent days, and has directly appealed to the Trump administration to allow it to build its own.The US President offered the country the right to make the weapons in July, but reneged on the proposal while speaking at the White House earlier this week.Article continues belowSaying he had "not agreed" to let the country manufacture the systems during a cabinet meeting on Friday, he said: "We have not agreed to that. We're talking about it. But it's a hard thing to give away, that kind of technology. These weapons are incredible. We have to be very careful about letting somebody build them."