Russian Missile Barrage Kills at Least 6 in Kyiv
The strikes hit 12 locations and damaged homes, a medical facility and a school as rescue crews pulled people from rubble.
- A Russian missile barrage overnight on Aug 20, 2026, killed at least six people in Kyiv as explosions echoed across the capital, with local authorities reporting at least 33 people wounded.
- Russia has intensified ballistic missile attacks on the capital to constrain Kyiv's air defense stocks, exploiting limited systems capable of intercepting ballistic threats.
- Strikes damaged 12 locations across Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, and Solomianskyi districts, destroying the top two floors of a nine-story residential building in Solomianskyi and damaging a medical facility and educational institution.
- Emergency crews worked to pull people trapped under rubble in two residential buildings and a school shelter as the air raid alert remained active into early morning hours on Aug 20, 2026.
- President Donald Trump previously authorized and then reversed licenses for local Patriot production, while Ukraine faces chronically constrained air defense supplies and continues long-range strikes against strategic targets inside Russia.
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At least eight people have been killed and 33 injured in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kiev, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko announced on Telegram. The attacks took place during the night and morning of Thursday, August 20. Images reportedly show rocket and drone attacks on Kiev. The attacks destroyed, among other things, a children's hospital and a residential building, The Kyiv Independent reports. At least twelve locations were a…
Russia launched a large-scale attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev and its surroundings overnight, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, authorities said. The missiles hit residential areas and warehouses, as well as an industrial facility, according to the city's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko.
Rescuers have de-blocked two people from the rubble and continue to work in three parts of the capital.
The Russian attack, begun after local midnight, caused explosions, fires, damage to buildings and disruptions of electricity in different parts of the city
"23 other people were injured" in the Ukrainian capital during this new Russian offensive, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, said the Kiev military administration.
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