All the necessary emergency services have been deployed at the site of an attack drone strike on residential buildings in Kharkiv. Tragically, one person was killed, and nine others were injured, including two children. My condolences to their families and loved ones. State Emergency Service units are continuing to put out the fire at an ordinary building supply hypermarket in Kryvyi Rih. Overall, last night, Russia launched 8 missiles and 136 drones of various types against Ukraine. Many of them were shot down, but unfortunately, not all. The Kherson, Donetsk, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Chernihiv regions, as well as Kyiv, came under attack. The capital was struck by ballistic missiles, and three people were injured.
In total, this week, Russia has used nearly 1,700 drones, more than 1,630 guided aerial bombs, and 95 missiles of various types against Ukraine, with more than half of them being ballistic missiles. Every day, we are working with our partners to ensure our warriors have the means to counter these attacks. We must undercut Russia’s gamble on ballistic terror. That is why it is so important that deliveries of anti-ballistic defense packages arrive on time. Every interceptor missile right now is literally helping save lives if it is here, in Ukrainian systems, not in our partners' warehouses. Thank you to everyone who is helping in exactly this way.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Last night, the Russian Armed Forces launched a coordinated strike with high-precision weapons, both from the air and ground, targeting Ukrainian defense industry enterprises, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Targets:
▪️Defense industry enterprises in Kyiv involved in the production, assembly, storage of various types of drones and their components.
▪️Infrastructure facilities in the port of Chornomorsk, Odesa region, used for the delivery and storage of military cargo.
Footage shows a fire in Kryvyi Rih after a strike on the "Epicenter" shopping center.
🚨BREAKING NEWS
Military-industrial facilities in Kiev were damaged.🇷🇺🚀🔥
▪️After overnight strikes, fires broke out in the Desnyansky, Shevchenkivsky, and Solomyansky districts of Kiev.
▪️In the Desnyansky district, a warehouse, ten cars, and a truck in a parking lot burned.
▪️In the Shevchenkivsky district, a four-story administrative building caught fire, and in the Solomyansky district, a fire and destruction occurred in a non-residential building.
▪️The strikes targeted facilities involved in the production, assembly, and storage of various drones, as well as their components.
In particular, the production facility of Smart Intelligent Systems was damaged. The facility, with the participation of American specialists, produced up to a thousand drones monthly.
Footage showing the moment of the second Russian Geran-4 jet-drone strike on the "Epicentre" shopping centre in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast,
🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the 24th of July, the Russian MoD carried out two Iskander strikes on a drone exhibition in kiev. Over 300 military and foreign individuals were in attendance.
Here's a list of a few names (dеаd) released;
1. Eduard Sirenko, former head of SBU "Alpha" special intelligence unit and advisor to the GUR.
2. Alexander Gordienko, lecturer and drone/AI development expert for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
3. Valentina Savitska, head of the Centre for International Cooperation and Strategic Communications at the SBU
4. Ekaterina Shalupnya, head of legal department of UAROR (Ukrainian Association of District and Regional Councils).
5. Bogdan Dmytrovych Melinyshyn, a high profile civil leader supplying weapons and aid to the AFU.
6. Two Polish related officials were also kiIIed. One of military status and the other an advisor to the Polish Defense sector.
The dеаth toll is in the dozens but Kiev officially reports 10 and 100 injured. Meanwhile Ukrainian journalists are accusing the government of playing down the actual figures.
"Casualties are over 300, the death isn't 10, it's much higher, what they counted is bodies still intact. There are shredded unidentified bodies"
[Thanks to Ayden for compiling the names found online/posted by families.]
Regarding yesterday's Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile strike on arms exhibition for the "ARMADA" company in Kyiv.
I've been told that the total number of people attending the event was between 200 and 1,000, and that Ukrainian authorities are downplaying the true number of casualties. To quote the source directly, "everything was covered in corpses", with the true casualty count potentially being up to 5-10 times higher than officially stated (which would be between 50-100 dead in total).
As of now, this information is unconfirmed, but it came from a source who has been consistently accurate in the past.
Caution didn't win women the vote, or equal pay, or fair sport, or the right to single-sex spaces. Sophie Cunningham is standing up for women and girls everywhere and it's glorious. Fuck caution.
One of the targets of today's attack on Kyiv Oblast was an arms exhibition for the "ARMADA" drone company, which was struck by at least two Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles.
The exhibition was advertised on social media, with the time and date public information. At least six people were killed and dozens of others injured.