A hundred apartments from Ivan Dziuba Street in kyiv ceased to exist on Thursday in a seen and not seen. A Russian ballistic missile hit a 10 -storey building. Emergency services ended at noon on Friday the tasks of searching for victims among the debris. 31 people died and the injured exceed 150. Among the victims there are five minors dead and 16 injured.
The tragedy occurred in the last phase of the bombing in the morning of Thursday. The attack lasted more than six hours (from 23:00 to 5:30) and, as usual in Russian tactics, which try to overflow with anti -aircraft defenses surrounding the city. It is at the end of the operation when the invader triggers its missiles, so that they coincide with the last column of drones that reach the capital. Five Iskander ballistic missiles broke out of kyiv at that time. One of these reached a block of housing of 10 plants, causing the second largest slaughter of civilians in the capital in the almost three years of war.
The attack that left more dead in kyiv occurred in July 2024, just a year ago, when 32 people died and 82 were injured. That day is above all remembered because.
The residents of the housing adjacent to the place of impact on Ivan Dziuba street continued a day later collecting their belongings of their homes, to move to living in houses of relatives that welcome them or in shelters offered by public and volunteer organizations. In an attack like the morning of Thursday, hundreds of households are damaged, which only after expensive and long reforms can be habitable again.
A tree from the community park was converted by the citizens of the neighborhood instead of memory of the deceased, with flowers and candles.
Ukraine convened an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to protest the attack and to increase international pressure on Russia to accept a high fire without conditions, as reported by the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sibiga. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, refuses to accept this truce. This has led his American counterpart, Donald Trump, to accept for the first time the sending of weapons for Ukraine and the countries that buy their energy resources.
Putin has reiterated this Friday that he is in favor of continuing with the negotiations with Ukraine, but that Russia will only sign peace when the goals that have been marked with the invasion are met. These are, according to the plans made by the Kremlin, the full annexation of the provinces of Donetsk, Lugansk, Jersón and Zaporiyia, the resignation of Ukraine to be part of NATO and the suspension of all international military aid for kyiv.
Something unusual, Trump said Thursday specifically to condemn the last attack on kyiv. The UN Office in Ukraine issued a statement on Thursday in which Russia is using this summer 10 times more missiles for long -range bombings than at the same time in 2024. According to the daily statistics that communicate the Ukraine air forces, in July 6,294 drones and 201 missile White. Last June was the month with more civil victims of the last three years of the war ,: 232 killed and 1,343 injured. The total of dead civilians in Ukraine in almost three and a half years of war approaches 14,000.
It was precisely this June that kyiv suffered another bombing that left a trail of civilians, 28 people. The circumstances were similar to those of July 31. A ballistic missile directly impacted a housing block. In that case, the objective was an upcoming factory. At least five other impacts gave in that industrial apple, 150 meters from the destroyed building. Putin said the goal was a drone factory. When a missile hit a housing block close to a ship in which military lodge.
In Monday’s bombardment, the missile trajectory indicates that its final destruction destination could be an industrial zone located 300 meters from the tragedy place. Unlike the previous two, in the event on Thursday it is not clear what the objective of Iskander, a projectile that has a minimum production cost of 2.7 million euros.
Record of the dead
The UN believes that Julio will see another black record in losses of civil lives. Both the UN and local authorities have registered an increase in the use of cluster ammunition in these missiles and drones, which causes an extension of greater damage in territory, but also triggers the risk for the civilian population.
In July, the drone record used in a single long -range bombardment against Ukraine cities away from the front was exceeded :. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is assumed that this 2025, Russia will exceed the number of 1,000 bomb drones used in a single attack.
Despite this, the greatest number of human casualties is caused by missiles and Russian bombers. If a shahed can load between 30 and 100 kilograms of TNT explosive, an Iskander can load 500 kilos. Same as lethals are Russian air pumps FAB. Several of these projectiles killed on July 28. That day, 23 civilians died under Russian fire throughout Ukraine.
