Russian strikes kill at least 26 in Kyiv region on eve of NATO summit

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Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Published - July 07, 2026 08:33 am IST - Kyiv, Ukraine Residential area heavily damaged by Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine on July 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia fired missiles and drones into apartment buildings in Kyiv for the second time in a week Monday, (July 6, 2026) killing at least 26 people on the eve of a crucial NATO summit, Ukrainian authorities said. The attack hit just days after another Russian strike killed more than 30 people in the Ukrainian capital. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decried the "brutal strike", saying that "the Russians' tactics are unchanged: to inflict as much pain and damage as possible on Ukrainians and on Ukraine." In the northeastern city of Sumy, Russian drone strikes killed two people on Monday (July 6, 2026), the Ukrainian regional military administration said. Mr. Zelenskyy — expected to hold talks with US counterpart Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Turkey — pleaded for the alliance to boost Ukraine's air defence against Russia's ballistic missiles. He said Kyiv was successful in shooting down drones and cruise missiles but had "not enough means of defence" against hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles. While Kyiv reeled from the attack, the Ukrainian Army said it had struck an oil refinery in Russia's Omsk region, around 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) from Ukraine's border, in one of its deepest hits during the almost four-and-a-half-year war.