Russia, Ukraine exchange deadly strikes after massive Kyiv attack

A firefighter works at the site of what Ukrainian media reported was a Russian strike on the Ukrainian Red Cross warehouse, in a location given as Kyiv, Ukraine, in this screengrab taken from a handout video obtained by Reuters on July 3, 2026.

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At least 10 people were killed in Ukrainian attacks on Russia and Moscow-occupied territory, local officials said on Friday (July 4, 2026), as Ukraine reported five killed in Russian attacks.

The exchange of deadly strikes comes a day after Russia unleashed an overnight pummelling — one of the worst of the conflict — on Ukraine's capital Kyiv, leaving at least 30 dead.

On Friday (July 4, 2026), a Ukrainian strike on a market in the Russian-occupied part of the southern Zaporizhzhia region killed five people, the Kremlin-appointed governor said.

"This is a strike against civilian life — against people who had come to buy groceries," Yevgeny Balitsky said on Telegram.

He earlier said three people had been killed in separate attacks in the region.

Two other people died in strikes on Russia's western Belgorod and Bryansk regions, both bordering Ukraine, officials said.

Ukraine, meanwhile, reported a strike on its northeastern region of Sumy that set a house ablaze and killed four people — including a toddler.

"Sadly, two women, an elderly man, and a small child — a girl not yet two years old — were killed. The Russian strike took her life along with her mother's," the head of the Sumy regional military administration, Oleg Grygorov, said on Telegram.

Three more people were wounded in the attack.

One person was killed and five wounded in the central eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, regional military administration head Oleksandr Ganzha said on Telegram.

Kyiv's air force said on Friday that Russia launched two missiles and 105 drones at Ukraine overnight.

Russia meanwhile shot down 155 Ukrainian drones overnight from Thursday (July 2, 2026) to Friday (Juy 3, 2026) over its regions and annexed Crimea, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.

On Thursday (July 2, 2026), Russia unleashed one of the most intense drone and missile attacks to hit the Ukrainian capital since the start of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

At least 30 people were killed in Kyiv, according to a toll provided Friday (July 3, 2026) by rescue services.

Published - July 03, 2026 09:34 pm IST